Andy Rooney Quotes
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I was a tomboy.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
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I separate the world of startup communities into two constituencies - leaders and feeders. The leaders are entrepreneurs and the feeders everyone else.
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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.
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French fries and vino are my vices.
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With the Chiefs, you can't live in Kansas City and not like the Chiefs. To go catch a game at Arrowhead is a pretty great experience. I haven't had the chance to go to games anywhere else, but, from what I'm told, I don't really need to.
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Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
