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I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

Andy Rooney

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Albany
New York
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the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
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I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
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It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
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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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I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
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No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.
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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
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I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
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The last birthday that's any good is 23.
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I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost someone will take the ones you miss.
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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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I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
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I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
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Dogs are nicer than people.
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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
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It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.
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