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.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Decision – making is very scary for me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Scary

• Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Positive
  • Sex
  • Islam

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• I like to give people more than their money's worth.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Worth

• A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Man
  • Mistake
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Time
  • Me
  • Question

• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Song

• 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.'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Time
  • Frightened

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Myself
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Trouble
  • Hollywood
  • Awful

• Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Years
  • Create
  • Intelligence

• My mother is my hero.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Mother
  • Hero

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Country
  • Change
  • Reflection

• You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things... It doesn't frighten me.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Different
  • Doubt
  • Ignorance

• When I visit new places, I like to see the markets.

  

  Rirkrit Tiravanija
  • Places
  • Markets

• That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Light
  • Certain

• You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • History
  • Laws
  • Mathematics

• Numbers are the most certain things we have.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Certain
  • Numbers
  • Mathematics