Andy Rooney Quotes

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Andy Rooney

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• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Good
  • Successful

• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Care

• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lord

• I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Door

• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Different
  • Women
  • Gossip

• I like my dry-aged steaks.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Like

• Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Person
  • More
  • Deserve

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Feelings

• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Husbands

• I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Time
  • Giving

• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Democracy
  • Prince

• We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

  

  Charles Best
  • School
  • Business

• One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

  

  Kit Bond

• I go to museums all the time.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Time

• No one nor anything can silence me.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Silence

• It might be done I suppose before I leave but I think that a little unlikely.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Done
  • Thouths

• For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Family
  • Giving
  • Health

• I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Everyday
  • Revenge
  • About

• There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

  

  Elliot Johnson
  • Floating
  • Shells
  • Landing

• I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Appreciated
  • I've Learned
  • Shells