Andy Rooney Quotes
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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I was really happy with how 'Rogue One' came out.
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Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
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Our security in a global world must be looked at on a continental basis.
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I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.
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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
