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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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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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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When I see something that's sensitive, I go, 'You've got to put that out there.' You need to keep the dialogue going and shine a light on the bad guys. If you sweep it under the carpet, people forget about it. People stop talking about it.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.
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I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
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I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
