Andy Rooney Quotes
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I'm a real romantic.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.
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I try hard to always question myself and wonder, 'What could I have done better? What did I do wrong?' The culture at our company is to be self-critical, but you have to balance that as a leader with praise for your team.
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It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
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I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.
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I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.
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A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
