Andy Rooney Quotes
People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes.
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And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
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What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
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I was tough on myself because I feared being a lazy procrastinator and the inevitable result: being mediocre or second best. I always went the extra mile.
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People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
