Andy Rooney Quotes
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A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
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Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
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One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.
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In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
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Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
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I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
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Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.
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I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
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Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
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The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.
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Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it.
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A writer's job is to tell the truth.
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When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
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Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
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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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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
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Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.