Andy Rooney Quotes
Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
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Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.
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God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.
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Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
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Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.
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Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
