Andy Rooney Quotes
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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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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
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We had an amazing experience shooting the first season of 'Leverage' with such a talented cast and crew and with the full support of TNT behind us.
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He got himself involved. It wasn't so much anything we did specifically ? we did really the same things we've been doing. He found ways to get his hands on the ball.
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
