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Russell Baker Quotes

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 14, 1925

Topics

Home Live Trees Grow New Right

Life is too short to be in relationships where you feel this isn't fully right.

Anna Faris

Life Life Is Too Short Short You Too

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

Toni Servillo

Life Nature Beauty Daily Sea Death

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

Toyo Ito

Losing Feel Sometimes Own Sense Our

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Great Start Thinking Forget First

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Work Tough Process Feel You Acting

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Miranda Otto

You Sometimes Hard See Working How

I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're a bad person - if you're wealthy, if you've done well, oh, you must be bad. And frankly, winning the lottery doesn't change who you are; you're the same person inside. And I'm the same person I was as an 18-year-old who fell in love with Ann.

Mitt Romney

Love Change Character Winning Think

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

Lorene Scafaria

Technology Me Airplane Nobody Run

Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.

Dinesh D'Souza

Men Remember Young Discussion How

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Diane Arbus

Go Never Where Favorite Been Thing

I worked as a janitor in Canada for nine months. It's during that time when I experienced extreme homesickness.

Coco Martin

Time Canada Extreme Nine Janitor

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War Hell Cry Vengeance Blood More