Andy Rooney Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.
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Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?
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Death poses a problem which replaces all the others. What is deadly to philosophy, to the naive belief in the hierarchy of perplexities.
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There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.
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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
