Russell Baker Quotes

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • God
  • Process
  • Doctor

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• It's very special having a new little girl.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Girl
  • New
  • Special

• The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Years
  • First
  • Event

• When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Humor
  • Admire

• I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Book
  • Age
  • First

• It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Work
  • Blue

• The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Men
  • May

• I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People

• I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Character
  • Way
  • Interesting

• I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

  

  Peter Higgs
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.

  

  Gary Gait
  • Sports
  • Changed
  • Fishing

• I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Space

• The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

  

  Charles Tennyson Turner
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Survive

• You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Heart
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