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

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker

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Change
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Roosevelts declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. – Russell Baker

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Fear
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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. – Steven Spielberg

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Home

When I make a film Im away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them. – Kevin Costner

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Home

I cant grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Dont bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs. – Bobby Flay

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Home

Im still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and theres half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola. – Alan Rickman

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Home

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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams

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Learning

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. – Lee Segall

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Philosophical

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because theyre alive and human. – Albert Ellis

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Love

Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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Failure