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I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

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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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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The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
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Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
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People like to say, You're only as old as you feel, but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
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I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.
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I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
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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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I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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The only thing that really bugs me about television's coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.
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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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You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
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I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.
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Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
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I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
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I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
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If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
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