Russell Baker Quotes
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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I love cycling.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Those who go along get along.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
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I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.
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The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
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Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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Choosing to work where there is a union and getting the related benefits of higher wages and collective bargaining, but not paying a fair share of the costs of representation, would be freeloading, right?
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
