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No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

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 just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
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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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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
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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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I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.
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All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.
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I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
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Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.
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I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
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I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry the other half hated President Bush.
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Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.
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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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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
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When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.
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Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.
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