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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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highlife music and the vocal melodies that I grew up on when I would be sitting with my father and his fellow chiefs, to the funk and freeness of the Bay Area groove, to L.A.'s smooth G-funk legacy, Brooklyn's lyricism, and now Atlanta's trap history.
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If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'
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I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.
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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.