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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I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
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Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.
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We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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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.
