Andy Rooney Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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My mother is my hero.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.
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I love to entertain an audience.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
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Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
