Andy Rooney Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
Dana Ashbrook -
Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
Tananarive Due -
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch -
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan -
The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
Vikram Patel -
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
Ike Barinholtz -
I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami -
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
Pat Summerall -
Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
Gary Johnson -
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
Taya Kyle -
I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
Aaron Sorkin
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
Ice Cube -
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson -
I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
Viggo Mortensen -
When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
Calvin Johnson -
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson
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When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.
Amandla Stenberg -
In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
Rian Johnson -
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it in the most perfect way.
Pablo Casals -
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
Andy Rooney