Andy Rooney Quotes
You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.
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A lot of the people I'd love to work with, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, aren't alive, unfortunately.
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A lot of people think pitchers, and they just think throwing and that's where all the power comes from. It's really not. It starts from the ground up. If you have a strong base, the legs will actually do the work and build all the torque and power you need to throw. So if you have weak legs at the end of the year, that's not good.
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
