Andy Rooney Quotes
I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
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I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
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I feel like baggy pants are cool.
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I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.
