Andy Rooney Quotes
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
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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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Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.
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You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.
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I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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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.
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Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
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A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.
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I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.
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I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?
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Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
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Person-to-person, most people are honest.
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Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
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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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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.
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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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Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.
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It's best to give advice in only two circumstances; when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
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I like animals who trust people.