Andy Rooney Quotes
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
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My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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My guiltiest pleasure in life is 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' I watch them all - old, new - I don't care. Despite how bad the writing is on the show. The people getting hit and hurt, that's hilarious.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' which is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Iraq descended into chaos in the years after the American troop withdrawal at the end of 2011.
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Art should never be held above our decency to each other.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
