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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
Andy Rooney
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I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
Andy Rooney -
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.
Andy Rooney -
No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.
Andy Rooney -
It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
Andy Rooney -
I just wish insignificance had more stature.
Andy Rooney -
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
Andy Rooney -
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.
Andy Rooney -
Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
Andy Rooney -
Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.
Andy Rooney -
Dogs are nicer than people.
Andy Rooney
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My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.
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My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
Andy Rooney -
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
Andy Rooney -
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy Rooney -
Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.
Andy Rooney -
As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney
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Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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Everyone hates war, everyone says.
Andy Rooney -
Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
Andy Rooney