Russell Baker Quotes

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

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• Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Music
  • Power

• Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Power
  • Choose
  • Greatest

• I am really addicted to music.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Music
  • Addicted

• I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Father
  • Death
  • Research

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Want
  • Well

• The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Morning

• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • Think
  • Computers

• I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Like
  • Feel

• Pineapple reduces swelling.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Swelling

• I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Designing
  • Self-Taught
  • Technically

• Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Survival

• Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Believe
  • Picture
  • English

• I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.

  

  Dot Jones
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Health
  • Years

• As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Business
  • Grow

• I figured he was getting a feel for who I thought should win it. Then I realized he was telling me that I had won it.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Feel
  • Win

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Home
  • Grows
  • Manage