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 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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
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It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.
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Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.
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One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
