"The people who say: 'You are what you……" — Russell Baker

"The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable."

— Russell Baker

102 Quotes by Russell Baker

Russell Baker has 102 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together…
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity,…
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at… — George Eliot
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings… — Robert De Niro
This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they… — Ann Coulter
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and… — Dave Cook
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the… — Charles Dickens
Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that… — Paul Monette
Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic… — Terry Pratchett

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