Andy Rooney Quotes
I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
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My definition of success is control.
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A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'
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The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
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They say that a martini is like a woman's breast. One ain't enough and three is too many.
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I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
