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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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 don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
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We're not talking light-hearted foolishness here - when we go for stupid we go for BIG STUPID - like people who shoot at you on the freeway, or the Rambos and Rambo-ettes who blow people away in shopping malls and fast-food restaurants with automatic weapons.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
