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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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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.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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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.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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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.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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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.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.
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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.
