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Russell Baker  Quotes
Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

—Russell Baker

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OftenReason
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Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

—Russell Baker

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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

—Russell Baker

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PresidentTakes
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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.

—Russell Baker

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Others
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Listen once in a while. It’s amazing what you can hear.

—Russell Baker

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OnceWhile
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Americans like fat books and thin women.

—Russell Baker

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BooksFat
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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.

—Russell Baker

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ProgressTerrible
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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.

—Russell Baker

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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

—Russell Baker

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Political
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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.

—Russell Baker

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GrowSeem
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Those who remember Washington’s cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan’s intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva – alone,...

—Russell Baker

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Remember
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

—Russell Baker

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DefeatGoalUltimately
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Anything that isn’t opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn’t matter.

—Russell Baker

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Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

—Russell Baker

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You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there’s a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

—Russell Baker

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Cause
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American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

—Russell Baker

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The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

—Russell Baker

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RecognizeTouristWorst
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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.

—Russell Baker

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EnjoyLeftSeem
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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.

—Russell Baker

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LawWhatever
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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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Knew
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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.

—Russell Baker

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Writing
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

—Russell Baker

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LonelyRead
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The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers’ own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

—Russell Baker

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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.

—Russell Baker

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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

—Russell Baker

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EarthSoul
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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.

—Russell Baker

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BornPoorPoverty
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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one’s beloved.

—Russell Baker

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Somebody
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Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

—Russell Baker

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ChildrenEducationGrowing-Up
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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

—Russell Baker

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UntilVital
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Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who...

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ElectionsEliteIvy-League
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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.

—Russell Baker

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Three
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It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

—Russell Baker

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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

—Russell Baker

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CenturyEnglishLiterature
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Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

—Russell Baker

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Except
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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.

—Russell Baker

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Education
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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.

—Russell Baker

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PublicWorse
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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.

—Russell Baker

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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools.

—Russell Baker

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CarsPossible
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You can’t enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

—Russell Baker

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EnjoyHeartLight
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism’s problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not...

—Russell Baker

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Problems
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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

—Russell Baker

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ElizabethForeignQueen
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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.

—Russell Baker

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CorruptionCrimeCriminal
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Serious journalism need not be solemn.

—Russell Baker

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JournalismSeriousSolemn
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When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout, whisper, pause, wave your arms, roll your eyes, wrinkle your brow.In...

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ClarityPunctuationWriting
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

—Russell Baker

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FunOnce
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In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

—Russell Baker

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AmericaEasierTradition
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A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a ‘Dear Murph’ letter...

—Russell Baker

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FatherOnceThinking
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Live by publicity, you’ll probably die by publicity.

—Russell Baker

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DiePublicity
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We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled...

—Russell Baker

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HumorSex
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven’s sake. They think...

—Russell Baker

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Thinking
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