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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 when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
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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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I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
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I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.
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It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.
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I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
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We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
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I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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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've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.
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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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I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
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I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.
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The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.
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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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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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