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 was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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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 kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.
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There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
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Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.
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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.
