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.Russell Baker
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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.
Candice Olson -
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 -
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton -
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
Cameron Diaz -
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.
Beau Willimon -
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
Randy Newman -
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells -
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
M. H. Abrams -
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.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan -
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
Octavio Paz -
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
Patrick Chappatte -
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.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
H. G. Bissinger -
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.
Karen Armstrong -
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
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Oh, I am such a nerd when it comes to music - I only listen to Broadway!
Laura Osnes -
I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and unique kind of human activity, which functions under its own rules and principles. It has nothing to do with the political agenda, and neither it should. When politics interferes with sport, unjust things happen.
Vladimir Putin -
I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
Harold Pinter -
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?
Mary Barnett Gilson -
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
D. H. Lawrence -
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.
Russell Baker