Russell Baker Quotes
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Women drive box office.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.
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But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.
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The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
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Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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I've had an unhappy life, thank God.
