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I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More

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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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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
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In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
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A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
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I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost someone will take the ones you miss.
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No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
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I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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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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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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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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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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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
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Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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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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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
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