Andy Rooney Quotes

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

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• We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

  

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• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

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• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

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• Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.

  

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• In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

  

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

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• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

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• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  

  Aaron Levie
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• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

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• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

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• Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

  

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• My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

  

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• Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?

  

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• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  

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• It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

  

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• How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

  

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• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  

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• Booyah, I will summon the ninja. Oh, and take a lunch break while we burgle." "You're going, too?" "Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?" "No, I was just thinking you're a little, uh, recognizable, maybe?" Eve batted her thick eyelashes. "Why, thank you, sweetie. That's the nicest insult I've had today, not counting the jock who said he'd date me but he had a restraining order out for necrophelia.

  

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• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Smart
  • Dumb