Andy Rooney Quotes - Page 7

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• The best thing about a vacation is planning it.

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  Vacation, Planning, Best Things

  Andy Rooney (2007). “Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes”, p.345, PublicAffairs

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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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• By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable

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  Inspiration, Shoes, Ready

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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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• I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.

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  Mom, Wish, Passed Away

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• I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

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  Atheist, Thinking, People

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• In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

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  Learning, Errors, Trial And Error

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.146, PublicAffairs

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• Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

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  Space, Switzerland, Should

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• Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

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  Years, Clothes, Feelings

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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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  Food, People, Cooking

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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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  Government, Want, Assistants

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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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  Hard Work, Creativity, Ideas

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.107, PublicAffairs

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• Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.

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  Smell, People, Soap

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• Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

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  Teacher, Crazy, Teaching

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• For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.

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  Breakup, Smart, Yellow

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• There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?

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  Cheating, Coffee, Together

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• Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.

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  Inspirational, Scotch, Milk

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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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  Believe, People, President

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• We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

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  Mistake, Giving, Feelings

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.261, PublicAffairs

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• Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.

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  Two, Annoyed, Waiting

  Andy Rooney (2007). “Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes”, p.146, PublicAffairs

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• Finding the tool is often half the battle.

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  Battle, Tools, Half

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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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  Sodium, Nazi, Made

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• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

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  Respect, Government, Perfect

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• Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

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  Rights, Speak, Equal

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• Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic calling. Speaking of being positive, your test is back. Stop sharing the love.

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  Being Positive, Calling, Tests

  "Curmudgeon Explains the Throne Speech" by Bill Tieleman, www.straight.com. February 17, 2005.

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