Andy Rooney Quotes

• The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever ‘curling’ means.

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• Taxes are important. President Bush’s tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

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  Tags in Taxes

• Let’s make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We’ll pick a week next year and we’ll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.

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  Tags in Seven

• It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.

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  Topics in Life

• I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn’t realize they thought. And they say, ‘Hey, yeah!’ And they like that.

  Andy Rooney

• I like ice hockey, but it’s a frustrating game to watch. It’s hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

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  Tags in Hockey

• I don’t pick subjects as much as they pick me.

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• Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It’s sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little s*xy too which doesn’t hurt.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Figure, Skating, Gymnastics

• Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Life

• As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

  Andy Rooney

  Tags in Secrets, Reporter

• Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

  Andy Rooney

  Topics in Technology

Andy Rooney (51)

Birth:	14th January, 1919
Death:	4th November, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Commentator, Journalist, Writer

About

Andy Rooney  was an American radio and television writer. He was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired October 2, 2011. Rooney began his career in newspapers while in the Army when, in 1942, he began writing for Stars and Stripes in London during World War II. Later, he was one of the first American journalists to visit the Nazi concentration camps near the end of World War II, and one of the first to write about them. For his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal.

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