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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If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast - and as someone said, 'If you’re going to hang me, you mustn’t expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution.'
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No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.
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Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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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.
