Andy Rooney Quotes
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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To survive is to win.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.
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I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.
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That momentum is something that's hard to explain. But we've seen both sides of it. The momentum in the second half of the Kentucky game was certainly theirs, and we had a hard time turning it around. Today, they started out, and then we started making big plays. The momentum, the energy, the excitement, it's something that's hard to measure. But I was certainly glad to see it.
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I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.
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There was this book I read and loved,The story of a shipWho sailed around the world and foundThat nothing else existsBeyond its own two sailsAnd wooden shellAnd what is held within.All else is sure to pass.We clutch and graspAnd debate what's truly permanent.
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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
