Russell Baker Quotes

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Russell Baker

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It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

Andrew H. Knoll

LifeBeachWalkDiversityAnimalGo

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.

John Howard

SurviveMarketingWayDaysOnly

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Amos Oz

RespectConflictPowerfulTragedy

I might do a solo album, maybe do covers, or do an acoustic thing. No Sex Pistols tours, nothing!

Steve Jones

SexNothingSoloAcousticAlbum

We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

Jason Statham

InterestingTryingMakeMovie

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Josh Radnor

KindnessTimeInvestmentMoreOver

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

Diana Quick

FunMePlayLuckyAlwaysOver

I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.

Cornelia Parker

I CanSayTrueThingsModernSaw

It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

Sylvia Earle

LifeLongPlaceWillOilSize

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with.

Scott Walker

BusinessTreeYellowDoingRemember

As your representative, you can count on me to fight back against Washington, D.C.'s war on the west.

Greg Gianforte

FightWarMeYouBackWashington

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Frederick the Great

ReligionUnderstandEverythingIdol

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