Andrew Aitken Rooney

Journalist

1919-01-14 – 2011-11-04

Andrew Aitken Rooney was an American journalist, writer, and television commentator best known for his long-running closing essays on the CBS News program 60 Minutes. He also worked as a war correspondent and author.

Quotes by Andrew Aitken Rooney

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
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We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.
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I like animals who trust people.
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In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
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Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.
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...most of its lifetime a cake of soap is too small.
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If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.
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American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
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In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.
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I've had a lot to do with glue and the experiences have almost always been disappointing.
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When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be ...
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Person-to-person, most people are honest.
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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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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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