Andy Rooney Quotes
When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.
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I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.
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Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.
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The world's most famous and popular language is music.
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When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination of so many things. But certainly influences early on that I felt from my mother. I wouldn't say she was "political" per se; she was sensitive to other people.
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When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
