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I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

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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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New York
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I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.
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Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
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I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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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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I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.
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We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
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When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, Things aren't as good as they used to be. But it's hard not to.
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My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.
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I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.
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I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.
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Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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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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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'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off
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There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
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I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
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