Andy Rooney Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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People often ask me, 'How do you go about choosing who to feature on Into The Gloss?' And I've never had a great answer. Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom.
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I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices.
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When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.
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One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.
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And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
