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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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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I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.
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I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.
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I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only when I started did I think, 'Sheesh, what have I gotten into?' I had to go after it fully; I just had to.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
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I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
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In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
