Andy Rooney Quotes

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

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• I bought a girl roses once.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Girl
  • Once
  • Roses

• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Restaurants

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • King
  • Overcome

• I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Life
  • Love
  • Hate

• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Way
  • Quiet

• The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Might

• A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Facts
  • Away
  • Ignoring

• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Scary

• There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Power
  • Shopping

• I'm an old trial lawyer.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Old
  • Lawyer
  • Trial

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Trust

• For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Long
  • Me
  • Desire

• I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • War
  • Society
  • Worry

• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Happy
  • Should
  • Might

• Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.

  

  Ian Kershaw
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Catholic

• I don't know what's going on with Mum and Dad, but it's weird. Mum keeps asking Dad to do things and he keeps doing them Unfotunately, she hasn't said 'Hand over your money and make your way to Europe!

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Money
  • She
  • Dad

• This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • May
  • Age
  • Literature

• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Literature
  • Hands
  • Doe