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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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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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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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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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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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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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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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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And any fan of mine who's a supporter of his Trump, I'm drawing in the sand a line, you're either for or against, and if you can't decide who you like more and you're split on who you should stand beside, I'll do it for it for you with this: Fuck you! The rest of America stand up. We love our military and we love our country, but we fucking hate Trump!
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The people that elected Donald Trump are Americans. They are every bit as entitled to weigh in on who should lead as any of us. The fact that they disagree with the values some of us hold dear is the point - America has always been about a battle of ideas that plays out over time.
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America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
