Andy Rooney Quotes
The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.
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I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.
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First, America must have a strong defense. We must never forget that our national defense is about much more than the land within our borders. Just as we fought and conquered totalitarianism during World War Two - just as we fought and conquered communism during the Cold War - we are defending the idea of freedom itself.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
