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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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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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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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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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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
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I just wish insignificance had more stature.
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I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.
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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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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 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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No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.
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A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.
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You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.
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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly. ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
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It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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The only thing that really bugs me about television's coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.
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I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
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Being kind is more important than being right.
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I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
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I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
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