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American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
Andy Rooney
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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
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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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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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Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading Confused.
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Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.
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I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
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I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
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I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
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Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
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There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
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Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love.' Beep. 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.'
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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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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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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 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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... all of us talk faster than we listen.
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I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.
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Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others
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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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