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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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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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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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
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Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn't want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.
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I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.
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If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.
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Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
