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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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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
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Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.
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Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
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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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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
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Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
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I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
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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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I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.
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The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.
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I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
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I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
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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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I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.
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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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Being kind is more important than being right.
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I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
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If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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... all of us talk faster than we listen.
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