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The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

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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've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
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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 when you're in love, it shows.
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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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 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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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
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Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.
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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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The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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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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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.
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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
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Person-to-person, most people are honest.
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The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
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I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
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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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My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, Married! and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.
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