Andy Rooney Quotes
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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I love unsalted almonds, especially if I'm about to do a photo shoot or compete. There's no mess, and they're so easy to pack in a little Ziploc bag to take with you. It's my number one go-to snack!
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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I don't watch much television.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
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Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.
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Isnt it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youre with some other ones Its stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!
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Even human relations become a matter of cost benefit calculation. Clearly this is the way the conquistadors viewed the worlds that they set out to conquer.It is the peculiar feature of modern capitalism to create social arrangements that essentially force us to think this way.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
