Andy Rooney Quotes - Page 8

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• My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

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  Ideas, Advice, Waiting

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• Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.

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  People, Mind, Lucky

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.

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  Nice, Doors, Years

  "Journalist Andy Rooney Dies at 92" by Joel Siegel, abcnews.go.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.

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  Technology, Opposites, People

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• Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

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  People, Wish, Important

  "Rooney: Please Choose". www.cbsnews.com. October 29, 2004.

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• Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

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  News Stories, People, Feelings

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.95, PublicAffairs

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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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  Moon, Men, Done

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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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  Kids, Use, Computer

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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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  Order, Numbers, Giving

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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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  Baby, Believe, Giving

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.105, PublicAffairs

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• I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.

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  Retirement, Florida, Looks

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• Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

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  Smart, Thinking, Boys

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• I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

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  Football, Hate, Years

  "Journalist Andy Rooney Dies at 92" by Joel Siegel, abcnews.go.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

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  Space, Switzerland, Should

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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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  Animal, Thinking, Years

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• Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

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  Powerful, Writing, Retiring

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• A writer's job is to tell the truth.

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  Jobs, Telling The Truth

  "Longtime CBS newsman Andy Rooney hospitalized", www.cnn.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Dogs are nicer than people.

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  Dog, People

  Andy Rooney (2007). “Out of My Mind”, p.250, PublicAffairs

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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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  Book, Phones, Secret

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• Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

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  Years, Next Year, Seven Days

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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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  Airplane, Missing, Bus

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• If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

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  Hurt, Ideas, People

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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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  Hate, Army, Men

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.89, PublicAffairs

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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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  Love, Hurt, Twenties

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.139, PublicAffairs

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• American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

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  Clothes, Firsts, Appearance

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