Andy Rooney Quotes
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I got married quite early. And then I had a son. I had a family. And this may be hard to believe, but I am a complete family kinda girl.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
