Andy Rooney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”
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“Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.”
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“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
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“If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.”
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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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“Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless ***** who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.”
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“People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.”
-- Andy RooneySource : Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.259, PublicAffairs
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“If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. 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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“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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“I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.”
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“Being kind is more important than being right.”
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“I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.”
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“the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”
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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 can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.”
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“I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.”
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“We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.”
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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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“Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others”
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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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“I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.”
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“The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.”
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“I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.”
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“I've learned... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.”
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“You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.”
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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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“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.”
-- Andy Rooney
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