Russell Baker Quotes
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
Quotes to Explore
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
-
My job is to help more people have jobs.
-
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
-
Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
-
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
-
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
-
I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?
-
I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
-
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
-
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
-
Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
-
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
-
I like to hunt. We went to a nuclear power and hunted in the woods next to it. I got a 34-point rabbit in there. We always go at night. It's easier. All the critters glow in the dark out there.
-
Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
-
As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.
-
Being a leading man can come in many different forms.
-
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not done what he did in the 21st. He would have understood how difficult it was to control this territory. He probably didn't read them.
-
I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.
-
War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.
-
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
