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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I am really addicted to music.
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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.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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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.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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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.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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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!
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I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.
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I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.
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I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.
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If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.
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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.
