Quote by Russell Baker
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

Other quotes by Russell Baker

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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Poetry
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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

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Poetry
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that dont work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

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I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him. – Gene Tierney

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I feel that Im at my best as a person and that Im coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think Ill be okay. – Claudia Black

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Home

Im not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain. – Jessica Biel

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Home

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. – Camille Paglia

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Home

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As soon as you concern yourself with the good and bad of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. – Morihei Ueshiba

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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions. – Whitfield Diffie

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Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasnt comedy I dont know if Obama could have ever become president. – Marlon Wayans

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