Russell Baker Quotes

• 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

  Paz, Guerra, Historia

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

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• Una persona culta es aquella que ha aprendido que la información casi siempre resulta ser, en el mejor de los casos, incompleta y, muy a menudo, falsa, engañosa, ficticia, mendaz, es decir, totalmente errónea.

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  Education, Learned Person, Information

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• Lo único para lo que era apto era para ser escritor, y esta idea se basaba únicamente en mi sospecha de que nunca sería apto para el trabajo de verdad, y que escribir no requería ninguno.

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  Real, Work, Writing

  Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.157, RosettaBooks

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• Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

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

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• Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

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  Happiness, Taken, Goal

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• Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

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  Reality, Obstacles

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• Lo peor de ser turista es que otros turistas te reconozcan como tal.

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  Inspiración, Divertido, Viajes

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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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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  Funny, Life, Seize The Day

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• The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

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  Giving, Advice, Going Out

  "The funniest commencement speeches" by Valerie Strauss, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• Así que ahí está por fin. El hombre en la luna. ¡Pobre magnífico chapucero! Ni siquiera puede llegar a la oficina sin sufrir las agonías de los condenados, pero dale un poco de metal, unos cuantos productos químicos, un poco de alambre y veinte o treinta mil millones de dólares y ¡listo! ahí está, sobre una roca a un cuarto de millón de millas en el cielo.

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  Science, Moon, Men

  1969 Editoral pages, the New York Times, 21 Jul.

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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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  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

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• La gente que dice: "Somos lo que comemos" siempre me ha parecido un poco torpe. En mi opinión, eres lo que piensas, y si no piensas, puedes comer toda la carne de Kansas City y seguir siendo un vegetal.

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  Thinking, Vegetables, Cities

  Russell Baker (1990). “The rescue of Miss Yaskell, and other pipe dreams”, Plume

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• The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

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  People, Car, Yesteryear

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

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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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  Communication, Thought Provoking, Miracle

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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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  Bridges, Television, Dinner

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

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  Sex, Men, Car

  Russell Baker (1983). “Growing Up”, Plume

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• Serious journalism need not be solemn.

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  Serious, Needs, Journalism

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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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  Birthday, Children, Parent

  Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labor is man's noblest calling. Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.

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  País, Hombres, Gente

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• Como todos los jóvenes reporteros -brillantes o irremediablemente incompetentes- soñaba con la glamurosa vida del corresponsal en el extranjero: merodear por Viena con una gabardina Burberry, hablar una docena de idiomas con mujeres peligrosas, escapar por los pelos de bandidos sardos... el material habitual del que están hechos los sueños periodísticos.

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  Dream, Escaping, Dozen

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• Honramos la ambición, recompensamos la avaricia, celebramos el materialismo, rendimos culto a la codicia, comercializamos el arte, apreciamos el éxito y luego ladramos a los jóvenes sobre las delicadas artes del espíritu. Los niños saben que si realmente valoráramos el aprendizaje, pagaríamos a nuestros profesores lo que pagamos a nuestros abogados y corredores de bolsa. Si valoráramos el arte, no lo mediríamos por su capacidad de producir beneficios. Si consideráramos importante la literatura, la sacaríamos de los sorteos de famosos y gastaríamos un poco de dinero en nuestras bibliotecas.

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  Teacher, Art, Ambition

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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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  Law, Wallets, Seems

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• In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

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  Writing, Play, Roles

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• Ah, verano, qué poder tienes para hacernos sufrir y que nos guste.

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  Summer, Nature, Suffering

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• When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

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  Confused, Parent, Peas

  Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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