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

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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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Albany
New York
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I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.
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I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
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A writer's job is to tell the truth.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
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Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
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I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.
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One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.
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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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I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
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I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.
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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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Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
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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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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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