Russell Baker Quotes

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Russell Baker

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GoodAgeMeBackModestKnew

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

Stephen Fincher

GoodJumpUpFrogGuyKnown

It's wonderful to see someone you love get what they wanted.

Stephen Henderson

LoveSomeoneYouSeeWonderfulGet

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

Travis Scott

MusicMeSayingFeelYouKnow

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

Tom Tancredo

GreatImmigrationDebateBordersOur

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Clive Sinclair

IgnoranceEndIronyWithoutMade

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

Woody Harrelson

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I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

William Shatner

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Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

William Moulton Marston

WorkGoldYouWantRealizeChasing

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

Richard M. Nixon

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Puerto Rico, within the span of two weeks, received two Category 4-5 hurricanes. That has never happened anywhere. The devastation has been enormous.

Ricardo Rossello

Puerto RicoNeverTwoWithinBeen

I like to take my time with things.

Mark Frost

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