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, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?
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There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
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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.
