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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It took Francis Galton several years to figure out that correlation and regression are not two concepts – they are different perspectives on the same concept. The general rule is straightforward but has surprising consequences: whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.
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I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
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Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
