Andy Rooney Quotes
In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
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Lose your mind and come to your senses.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
