Andy Rooney - Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit (2009)

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

Andy Rooney
Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding the napkins.

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

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Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Andy Rooney
Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

Andy Rooney
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

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When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

Andy Rooney
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

Andy Rooney
Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

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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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