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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Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
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I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders. And, you know, I belong to so many places and belong to none of them at the same time, so there's this sense of displacement - I very much understand what it is to not fit in or belong somewhere.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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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.
