Andy Rooney Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!
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I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.
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People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating.
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Honestly, just all the love and respect from the fans, that's always the biggest thing that puts a smile on my face.
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How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
