Andy Rooney Quotes

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

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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.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Government
  • Status Quo

• I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Everything

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• 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.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Home
  • High
  • Day

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• 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.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Real
  • Together

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• 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.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • You
  • Mirror
  • Rare

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Military
  • Organization

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Logic

• If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Story
  • Actor
  • Point

• An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • Art
  • Building
  • Acceptance

• I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Missing

• Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Heart
  • Painting
  • Smile

• If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Mean
  • Smile
  • Really