Russell Baker Quotes
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.Russell Baker
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
Larry Wilmore -
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke -
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay -
Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins -
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei -
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
Mahershala Ali -
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
Malcolm Boyd -
If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
Ed Rendell -
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
Jack Kemp -
I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
Ted Ligety -
I love 70's music.
Laura Linney
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
Vin Diesel -
You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
Salma Hayek -
I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
Pat Conroy -
I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
Vicente Fox -
I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn -
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
Madeleine Stowe -
I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
Danny Meyer -
I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire
Nicki Minaj -
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
Eudora Welty -
I'm very surprised about the stuff that's happening and the attitudes. I just can't understand why it seems the willingness to go out there and give it all you got and win is just not there.
Brad Wilkerson -
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.
Russell Baker