Andy Rooney Quotes
It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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A woman is as young as her knees.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
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I don't think people talk to me because I'm such a good, charming, good-looking guy. I don't - whether that's true or not. I think they do it because I work for a major news organization, and they think that it can probably be helpful to them and their business interests or their personal interest and what have you.
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You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
