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Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
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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I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?
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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
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I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
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Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
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You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.
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Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
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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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Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.
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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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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
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Don't keep saying, I don't know where the time goes. It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.
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I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
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