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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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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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When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.
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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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I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost someone will take the ones you miss.
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Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
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Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.
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Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.
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There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.
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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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I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
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I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
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Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
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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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Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
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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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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.
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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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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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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
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