Russell Baker Quotes - Page 6

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• People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

  Russell Baker

  Justice, People, Age

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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.

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  Birthday, Age, Rereading

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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, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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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.

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  White, House, Victory

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• Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

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  Looks, Lessons, Recipes

  Russell Baker (2014). “So This is Depravity”, p.75, Diversion Books

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• What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

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  Fall, Long, Ears

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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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.

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  Jobs, Office, Speech

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• Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

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  Writing, Media, People

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

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  Background Noise, Journalism, Backgrounds

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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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  Soul, Next, Next Time

  "Top 10 Commencement Speeches". content.time.com.

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

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  Hands, Feel Good, Causes

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• My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

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  Dark, Glasses, Natural Instinct

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• You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

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  Heart, Light, Heavy

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• In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

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  Sports, America, Opiates

  "The Muscular Opiate". "The New York Times", October 3, 1967.

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