Andy Rooney Quotes
One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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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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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
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For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way - or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.
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Being upbeat is the key to life.
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How we treat our fellow creatures is only one more way in which each one of us, every day, writes our own epitaph-bearing into the world a message of light and life or just more darkness and death, adding to the world's joy or to its despair.
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One of my major shortcomings - I'm vindictive. I don't know why that is. Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. It's a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.
