Andy Rooney Quotes
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
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I've had a lot of fans come up to me and say, 'I love the video song.' It's like it's a soundtrack recording or something. We'll never forget that the music comes first. I sometimes find video a little distasteful for that reason. People associate a band with their video images rather than with the music they produce, that's a little scary.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
