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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What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. 'Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?'
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Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
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Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
