Andy Rooney Quotes
I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
Quotes to Explore
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
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I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.
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I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
