Andy Rooney Quotes
I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I remember making up songs in my head.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
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More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.
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I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
