Andy Rooney Quotes

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Andy Rooney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1919 - November 4, 2011

Topics

GovernmentMeThinkSurpriseHelp

Every single year, I tell myself I am going to drive. It never happens. I don't know how to drive. I am already 20. This needs to happen.

Jessica Sanchez

MyselfI AmDriveYearKnowNever

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

EducationMotherIgnoranceSchoolGo

Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not.

Amy Cuddy

IdeasChallengesPresentMoments

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Trai Byers

WorkDestinyWalkingJustNeeded

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

Mary Roach

MedicalSearchInternetChainsBegin

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.

Miranda July

FunnyWomenWomanSpaceMeYou

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Joseph Addison

PassionGrowingAdmirationObject

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

Nomar Garciaparra

MotherHomeMeGoGarbageOut

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins

GenerositySelfishBornTeachTry

Working with kids is something I really enjoy doing - that's why I also do work with UNICEF.

Lewis Hamilton

WorkDoingEnjoyWhySomethingKids

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

Kelly Brook

PeopleThinkYouCleverBreasts

It means nothing if the movie doesn't get out there.

Kim Novak

NothingOutGetMeansMovie

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