Andy Rooney Quotes
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
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Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
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Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
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What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
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It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.
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In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
