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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

Andy Rooney

I’d be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn’t believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don’t think it does.
ANDY ROONEY

Acceptance Believe Myself People Religion Thinking Willing
I’ve learned, That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
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Bitter Happiness Learning Myself
If I’d known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can’t remember a single project I would have started.
ANDY ROONEY

Finish Myself Problem Remember
Don’t take a butcher’s advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he’d be a chef.
ANDY ROONEY

Advice Cook Himself Meat
Go to bed. Whatever you’re staying up late for isn’t worth it.
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Bed Later Stay Worth
People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
ANDY ROONEY

Acceptance Believe Fact General People Truth
A cat’s idea of a ‘good time’ is to kill something.
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Cat Goodness Ideas Kill Time
I’m always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
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Goodness People Time
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
ANDY ROONEY

Drive Game Kill Thinking Yourself
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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Age Fresh Myself Wait
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
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Greatness Mindset Virtue Way
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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Calm Comfortable Peace
It isn’t working that’s so hard, it’s getting ready to work.
ANDY ROONEY

Hard Myself Ready Work
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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Arrangement Care Food Myself Paint Photograph Time
Conservatives are more religious than liberals–although there is no evidence that they’re nicer people because of it.
ANDY ROONEY

Conservatism Liberal Nice People Religious
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
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Animal Forget Grandparents

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