Andy Rooney Quotes
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
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Practices were tough.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.
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Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
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I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
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I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.
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More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
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Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
