Quote by Russell Baker
Reporters thrive on the worlds misfortune. For this reason they of

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

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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. – Russell Baker

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Poetry
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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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Death
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Politics
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I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So Im offering myself as the alternative PM – thats one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition – but Im not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. – Malcolm Turnbull

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Politics

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. – Howard Fineman

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Politics

Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. – Lester Bangs

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Politics

Its a big deal for me to say Im over politics. – Shirley MacLaine

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Politics

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All I was doing was trying to get home from work. – Rosa Parks

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Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. – Bob Kane

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Imagination

Your ignorance cramps my conversation. – Anthony Hope

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Theres immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters. – Garth Ennis

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respect