Russell Baker Quotes

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

Russell Baker

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• I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.

  

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• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  

  Zack Wamp
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• I never wrote my books especially for children.

  

  P. L. Travers
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• Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
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• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
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• Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

  

  Nas
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  • Rapper
  • Anybody

• I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Acting

• I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Up
  • Friends
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• You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Wealth
  • White

• It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Political
  • Same

• I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friendship

• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Always
  • Years
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• Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Game
  • Best
  • Boy

• While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Power
  • Growing

• I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Age
  • Young
  • Stage

• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Day
  • Fashion

• It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Life
  • World
  • Eye

• 'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of screen time will all have to do with which activities you engage into.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • People
  • Work

• The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?

  

  Jon Brion
  • People
  • Work

• Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Evil
  • Humanity
  • Matter