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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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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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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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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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 write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
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The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.
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Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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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.
