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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

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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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In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
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My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
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Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading Confused.
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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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Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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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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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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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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I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.
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You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
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I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
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I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.
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I've done a lot of complaining here, but of all the things I've complained about, I can't complain about my life.
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I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
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Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.
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I've learned... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
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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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A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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