Andy Rooney Quotes

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Andy Rooney

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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

Action Bronson
- Song
- Never
- Pressure
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

Van Morrison
- Think
- Negative
- Nostalgia
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

O. J. Simpson
- Mother
- Death
- Dad
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

E. Stanley Jones
- Freedom
- Mean
- Mistakes
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

J. M. Roberts
- Culture
- Drama
- Painting
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

Samantha Power
- Decision
- Military
- Force