Andy Rooney Quotes
New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.Andy Rooney
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith -
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
Naval Ravikant -
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
Warren Ellis -
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
Karin Slaughter -
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
Walter Gropius
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
Rafael dos Anjos -
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
Zubin Mehta -
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion -
Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
Imogen Heap
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Daniel Clowes -
My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
Salma Hayek -
I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
Ingmar Bergman -
I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
Dan Shechtman
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I think anyone in life, everyone in the world, no matter what work they do, they should think of wanting to get on, to win, improve.
Diego Costa -
The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
Naomie Harris -
I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.
Bill Nighy -
Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
Jason Bateman -
New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
Andy Rooney