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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets

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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You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when theres a big photo opportunity for a really good cause. – Russell Baker

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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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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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White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. – Ron Fournier

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The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When theres no ball, theres no game. Bullies hate that. So theyll either behave so they can play with you or theyll go bully someone else. – Seth Godin

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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. Thats the same view I have for performing. Im performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. – Yo-Yo Ma

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And I came back and it was great, cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know. – Ringo Starr

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