Andy Rooney Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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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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After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.
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Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.
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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
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I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
