Russell Baker Quotes
A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
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Where do I live?
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There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.
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Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.
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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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My dream collaboration would be with someone like Bjork, Kate Bush, or even Dionne Warwick.
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I've always found people to be by far the biggest problem-causers in life.
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First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.
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A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.
