Russell Baker Quotes
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.
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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
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I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
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A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
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And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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I can cry like Roger. It's just a shame I can't play like him.
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I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.
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I want to entertain.
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The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.
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'Let Me Love You' is about being brave enough to let a person get close enough to you to teach you how to love yourself, to teach you the importance of loving yourself.
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Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.
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It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
