Russell Baker Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.”
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“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”
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“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”
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“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”
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“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”
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“Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.”
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“A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.”
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“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
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“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”
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“It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.”
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“When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.”
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“It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”
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“Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.”
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“Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.”
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“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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“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”
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“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
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“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”
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“A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.”
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“There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.”
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“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”
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“Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.”
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“Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.”
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“Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is”
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“After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.”
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“The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.”
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“Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.”
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“It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.”
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“Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.”
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