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Russell Baker quotes

American Journalist August 14, 1925

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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. Russell Baker
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. Russell Baker
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. Russell Baker
Russell Baker quote: "Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists..."
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. Russell Baker
Russell Baker quote: "A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's..."
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. Russell Baker
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. Russell Baker
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. Russell Baker
Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets. Russell Baker
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. Russell Baker
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. Russell Baker
Russell Baker quote: "You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart."
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. Russell Baker
Russell Baker quote: "The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and..."
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker
Russell Baker quote: "Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more..."
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. Russell Baker
Russell Baker quote: "People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong,..."
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Russell Baker
Russell Baker quote: "Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may..."
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Russell Baker

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