Andy Rooney Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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γῆς ἱδρῶτα θάλασσαν.
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
