Russell Baker Quotes

United States, Journalist
August 14, 1925 – January, 21, 2019.

Russell Wayne Baker is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004.

Also known as Writer

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

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- Mind
- Persons
- Journalist
Americans like fat books and thin women.

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- Women
- Book

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

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American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

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- Victory
- Policy
- Communism
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

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- Amazing
- Listen
- Hear
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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- People
- Writing
- Problem
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

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- Summer
- Suffer

I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

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- Life
- Unhappy
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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- Authority
- Newspapers