Andy Rooney Quotes
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
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I might wear skinny pants one day; I might wear thrift shop pants the next day.
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There is stuff going on inside me. But I have always been told to go out there and pitch like you can't tell if you just struck somebody out or just gave up a home run. If something bad happens, I don't dwell on it. Just give me the ball and let me pitch.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
