Andy Rooney Quotes
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around.
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When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.
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When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.
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When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population...
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It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.
