Russell Baker Quotes
34 Russell Baker quotes:
"Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases."
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"Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years."
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"Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it"
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"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
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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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"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity."
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"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
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"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."
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"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of 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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"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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"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
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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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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
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"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."
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"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."
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"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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"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."
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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 than you have to."
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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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