Andy Rooney Quotes

We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

Andy Rooney

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• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Interesting
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• I grew up as a country boy.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Country
  • Boy

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Father
  • Wrong

• I grew up pretty much with nothing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Nothing

• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Period
  • End

• We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Come
  • Turns

• There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government
  • Service

• If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Like
  • Big

• Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Reading
  • Waves
  • Skin

• It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Money

• I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Know
  • Shoes
  • Will

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Wonder

• In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Important
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right thing.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • People
  • Reasons
  • Right Thing

• In far-off lands stand the great stones on which my thoughts rest. It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words on the hard board that is called my soul. Days and nights I lie and think about things that never happened: my thirsty soul was once given a drink.

  

  Edith Södergran
  • Soul
  • Days
  • Stones

• The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Smile
  • Authors
  • Evoke

• I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Politics
  • Liars
  • Governor

• I write what I write, say what I say, 'cause I feel what I feel, and if I did it different, it would make me a liar! So I'd rather be an honest person than a good liar.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Liars

• We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Human Beings
  • Terrorist
  • Liars