Andy Rooney Quotes
I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
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People look at rights as if they were muscles - the more you exercise them, the better they get.
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Surviving the elements is working, but being on set and having to do a scene and being in a room with the same people who you actually enjoy and respect, your day project was easy.
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I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.
