Erwin McManus Quotes
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
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Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.
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After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States.
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I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
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To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
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Winning a world title has always been the dream and ultimate goal.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
