Russell Baker Quotes

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Russell Baker

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• My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Strangers

• Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Religion
  • Fight

• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Real
  • Love
  • Nature

• When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Experience
  • Stop

• For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Choice

• Defending peace is the duty of all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Peace
  • Duty
  • Defending

• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mistake
  • Place
  • First

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Career
  • Writer
  • Worldview

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Art

• As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Institutions

• I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Think
  • Church

• The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Different
  • Done
  • Kind

• If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Movie

• The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Government

• Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Suffering
  • Personality
  • Persons

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this tradition of bringing highlights of great operas on the series.

  

  Joel Rosenberg
  • Great
  • Started
  • Series

• I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Character
  • Film
  • Breathe

• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Safety
  • Crisis
  • Unnerves

• It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Economic
  • Election
  • Crisis