Andy Rooney Quotes
It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
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Don't let the American twang fool you. I still say, 'I'm going home,' when I come to England, and I love a good old cup of PG Tips with a Jaffa Cake.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
