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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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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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
