Andy Rooney Quotes
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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War is over if you want it.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now- women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.
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I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
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So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
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I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.
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The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
