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It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.
Andy Rooney
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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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Albany
New York
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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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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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Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.
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Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
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Person-to-person, most people are honest.
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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The best thing about a vacation is planning it.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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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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By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable
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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 federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
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I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
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All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
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You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
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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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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.
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