Russell Baker Quotes
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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I was a terrible English student.
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Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.
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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.
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Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.
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The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
