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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He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
