Enlightening Quotes - Page 2

• The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

  Julius Streicher

  Race, Goal, Religion

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• I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

  Andrew McMahon

  Thinking, Important, Littles

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• It's your 21st birthday... What are you doing sober at the front row of a concert? Is it your 21st birthday? By the end of the night I promise... we will get you drunk, my friend.

  Andrew McMahon

  Night, Drunk, 21st Birthday

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• It was very easy to kind of, kinda shut off and just, just kinda go crazy and just kinda dive into this or that. You never really take a minute to look around, you know take stock and see where you're at and make sure you're doing things for the right reasons and make sure that you remember to call that person who's really important to you and you know, tell them what's on your mind, and be honest with yourself.

  Andrew McMahon

  Crazy, Mind, Important

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• For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is that of a 10 by 10 writing shack in Glendale, where the summer days average between 90 and 100 and each song can be quantified in the sweat it took to write it. There is no ac in hell, and sometimes you've got to get down to get up. The train is gaining speed I should think.

  Andrew McMahon

  Summer, Song, Wall

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• I like to watch people have fun and then trip them while they're doing so.

  Andrew McMahon

  Fun, People, Watches

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• I'm Doctor McMahon with a Ph.D. in sweet-ass rock with an emphasis in set list creation.

  Andrew McMahon

  Sweet, Doctors, Rocks

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• I swear to much for this to be a television special. Did you guys ever have your mouth washed out with soap? My mom did that to me a lot. I think I swear more because of it. I started liking the taste of soap, I would eat it just to spite her. (pause) I'd bite off bars of soap.

  Andrew McMahon

  Mom, Thinking, Guy

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• A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

  Bruce Davison

  Interesting, Actors, Truthful

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• No matter how solid or structured or set you think you are, there is, you know, a very thin line keeping us all from sort of chaos, in some perspective. And you know, I don't view that really as a negative thing at all, but it just is the truth.

  Andrew McMahon

  Thinking, Views, Perspective

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.

  Andrew McMahon

  Sick, Would Be, Earth

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• If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

  Andrew McMahon

  Sports, Beer, Drink

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• ...You know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Mean, Knows

  Song: When It Goes Down

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• The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Media, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.324, Cambridge University Press

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• But planes land and so do I, and suns rise, melting away the grounds cool protection. I am finally free, if only for this moment. And should that be the case, then know that I am throwing a parade in first class as I speak. Art has again saved my life, my love and me. What next? Who really cares? Certainly a toast will be in order. Make mine a double.

  Andrew McMahon

  Art, Order, Land

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• This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

  Andrew McMahon

  Beautiful, World, Damn

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• People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

  Andrew McMahon

  Men, People, Energy

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• You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

  Andrew McMahon

  Curves, Balls, Way

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• Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars exploding. Voice shot down to hell, half sick, half recovered, alive and well and ready. The unknown for now will remain as such and in this moment that feeling is not one of suspension. It is the hopeful unknown. Reaching into the future could only be good now as the past is wrapping itself in ribbons and pleasant packing paper, rarely to be revisited.

  Andrew McMahon

  Stars, Quilts, Past

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• Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, I Hate You

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1996). “The Perfect Way”, p.229, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• I don't care what your politics are, but I do suggest you pay attention to the next election and go out and vote. It doesn't matter; you can believe whatever you want to believe, but this is the time everybody should be paying a lot of attention.

  Andrew McMahon

  Believe, Attention, Care

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• If I've learned anything over the past 5 years, it's that you do not know where you're going to be tomorrow. You have to make decisions based on that; it's almost pointless. So, you know, whether I learned, I think I'm pretty aware, pretty conscious of that point to live in the moment. It's a hard lesson, but it's like, I'm trying to learn to quiet my mind down, know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• You know, frankly, it's like I sort of realized something about life in the past six or eight months - that taking things a day at a time is a blessing and it's an honor and it's something that makes the day that you're living a lot more valuable

  Andrew McMahon

  Blessing, Past, Eight

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