Andy Rooney Quotes
I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don't buy things that don't sound like food, and I've been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don't. I do eat lots of vegetables. It's the same with dairy - I'll eat it then stop.
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I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.
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It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.
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I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
