Russell Baker Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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When I retired in 1994, I was never tempted to drop down the divisions to carry on playing. In fact, I never kicked a ball again, not even in a charity match.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.
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If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.
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Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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This is America, and everybody has the right to voice and to have an opinion and to have their commentary on things and people.
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There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.
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Love cannot be defined, caught, cast in stone, or archived. It's something we have no control over. Love is completely analog. Love can never be digital.
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
