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A writer's job is to tell the truth.

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
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New York
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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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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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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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 never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.
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Dogs are nicer than people.
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
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All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
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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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Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.
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Everyone hates war, everyone says.
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I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
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I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
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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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Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.
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I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
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