Andy Rooney Quotes
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.
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When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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Salutations
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Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
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The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
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I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
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The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.
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I have never been particularly picky when it comes to what I'm putting in my hair. Most of it is just the genes I'm so fortunate to have inherited from my parents.
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Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.
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In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.
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I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.
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Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
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It looks like [Donald] Trump's plan has the potential to actually move the needle on economic growth because he wants to lower taxes and lower regulations. That would be very powerful in terms of creating jobs.
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I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.
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The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.
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There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.
