Russell Baker Quotes
Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.
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No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
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I really never thought I was that good at film. And honestly still don't. My strength is language. My background is monologues and a certain kind of Brechtian spin on theater.
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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.
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There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
