Andy Rooney Quotes

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Cards
  • Cash
  • Boots

• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• I love cooking and baking.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Baking

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Character
  • Job
  • Feeling

• I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Hope
  • Imagination
  • Compassion

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Understand

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• It's hard for me to speak of my own development. I'm the one behind the steering wheel, and it is easier to see where the vehicle is going when you are looking at it. For me, it feels like I have been doing the same thing all along.

  

  Ashton Eaton

• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• 'The first lesson on Roke, and the last is, Do what is needful! And no more.''The lessons in between, then, must consist in learning what is needful.''They do.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Learning

• To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh, I bought some literature.' No, you say, 'I bought a novel' by so-and-so, or a book of essays by so-and-so.

  

  Jonas Mekas
  • Book
  • Literature
  • Tree

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Bad