Russell Baker Quotes
Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
-
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.
-
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
-
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
-
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
-
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
-
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
-
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
-
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
-
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
-
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
-
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
-
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
-
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
-
It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
-
If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
-
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
-
I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
-
The settlers do not have a problem with the leftists but, rather, with Israelis who like settlers: Israelis who are unconcerned by the fact that national-religious youngsters are overtaking our elite units. Such Israelis actually appreciate the settlers for that.
-
I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
-
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
-
Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.
-
Skinny women don't enjoy being told they're skinny nowadays. They enjoy telling you how they got that way, as though starvation were an achievement.
