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.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.
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Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.
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Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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I definitely stood out when I was in high school.
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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.
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Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
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I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.
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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.
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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
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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.
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Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.
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Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
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But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.
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When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.
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The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.
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No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
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I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
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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.
