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 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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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.
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Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream.
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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.
