Mickey Rooney Quotes

Show me a man with a million dollars, and I'll show you a million guys trying to take it away from him.

Mickey Rooney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 23, 1920 - April 6, 2014

Topics

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I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.

Adnan Sami

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The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

Joe Bastianich

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When I was eight, I went to the theatre, and I remember looking at the stage afterward and pointing and saying, 'I want to do that.' I don't think that's ever changed.

Joel Grey

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Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard.

Mayte Garcia

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Outside of my family and my work, I have two passions, both instilled in me by my father: golf and fishing.

Matt Lauer

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Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic, and relatively young for an agent who'd already spent nearly a decade chasing terrorists in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Algeria, so deep undercover that few of his friends or family knew the nature of his work.

Michael Hastings

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By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

Amor Towles

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If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

Sophie Kinsella

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And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

Skitch Henderson

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It's not like I love dragons! Only on 'Game of Thrones!' Our dragons are amazing, and they look really real. But I think after 'Game of Thrones,' I won't be a fantasy fan.

Sibel Kekilli

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The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.

Michael Moriarty

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I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

Jonathan Lethem

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