Andy Rooney Quotes
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
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I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
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You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.
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Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
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It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.
