Russell Baker Quotes
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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People never notice anything.
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I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.
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The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
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Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
