Andy Rooney Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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Values are more important than money.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.
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Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
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The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.
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People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
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The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.
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Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
