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Dont try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do i

Dont try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. – Russell Baker

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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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Humor
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Russell Baker
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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

Category:
Poetry
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Russell Baker
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories — those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

Category:
Things, Little Things
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I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. – Tina Turner

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We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. – John Walters

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I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960s, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. – Audre Lorde

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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me. – Charles Keating

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There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. – Anna Katharine Green

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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because theyre not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. – Eric Hobsbawm

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Toys are the greatest inspiration for me. People never really grow up. They just get bigger adult bodies. And they really want to continue to play. My inspiration comes from the work of many, many anonymous folk artists. – Doug Taylor

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