Andrew McMahon Quotes

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

Andrew McMahon

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• To Be
• Illusory

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• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.

  

  Imran Amed
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Simple

• One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • World
  • Education
  • Africa

• Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Brother

• The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Good
  • Men
  • Revolution

• I definitely stood out when I was in high school.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • School
  • High

• It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • She
  • Friend
  • Dance

• Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Value
  • Safety

• I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Magic

• I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

  

  Joe Dempsie
  • Country
  • Money
  • America

• I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Up

• Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Life

• Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Growing

• I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

  

  Barry Cornwall
  • Sleep

• I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Radio
  • New Music
  • Stevie Wonder

• He's completely correct, for as with music, as with movies, and as with a wide variety of human phenomena: a flaw is a powerful thing. Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others.

  

  Christian Rudder
  • Powerful
  • To Be
  • Liked

• Listen to your gut. Are decisions more expansive or narrowing?

  

  Marne Levine

• A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Believe
  • Year
  • December

• Becoming carbon neutral is only the beginning. The climate problem will not be solved by one company reducing its emissions to zero, and it won't be solved by one government acting alone. The climate problem will not be solved without mass participation by the general public in countries around the globe.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Country
  • Problem
  • Acting

• You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

  

  Andrew McMahon
  • Struggle
  • To Be
  • Illusory