Andy Rooney Quotes
Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known.
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I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
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Corporations are not people. They shouldn't be funding. They shouldn't be funding campaigns at all.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
