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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The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.
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I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
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There are a few sections of uncut timber, luckily state-owned.
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In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.
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I'm very happy doing what I'm doing; I don't think I'm prepared to devote my time to politics. When I am, I'd like to give it 100%. I'm not in the frame of mind, and I'm too greedy an actor to do that.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
