Andy Rooney Quotes
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
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I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
