Russell Baker Quotes
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.
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An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.
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'Well,' he said. 'Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.'
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It was the most enthralling episode in my life
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One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait The establishing of a fact.
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You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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I am a summer person.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.
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I play a bunch of instruments.
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
