Andy Rooney Quotes
I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I like things simple.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I know what poverty is.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.
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And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer. Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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If the Russians masterminded fraud for 40 years at the highest state level in sports, operating behind the scenes to corrupt sports, what else are they capable of?
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I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.
