Quotes by Andy Rooney

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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 perception  

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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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 taxes  

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Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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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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 exploration  

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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. [They] want to be just one of the boys.
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 intelligence  

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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'
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 humorous  

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Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
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 computers  

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Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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 news  

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I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
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 food  

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People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
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 belief  

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

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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
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 computers  

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Don't pin much hope on the mail, and when the phone rings don't expect anyone wonderful to be calling.
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 hope  

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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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 work  

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Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter."
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 vegetarianism  

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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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 dogs  

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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
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 odds  

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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.
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 fate  

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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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 wealth  

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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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 teachers  

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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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 smiles  

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