Andy Rooney Quotes
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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A little man often cast a long shadow.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.
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I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.
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If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.
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A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.
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Gettin at Weezy you comin through me-zy & I won't hesitate to do anyone greasy
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I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?
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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
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It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.
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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
