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I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

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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Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.
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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.
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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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If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.
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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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It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
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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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Unfortunately, propaganda works.
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Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.
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I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
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You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.
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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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Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!
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I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
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I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
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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 to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
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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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