Erwin McManus Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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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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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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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 did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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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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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
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There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
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The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.
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Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.
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When Donald Trump says, "Let's make America great again," that is code for let's take America backward. Back to a time when opportunity and dignity were reserved for some, not all. Back to the days when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women and girls was limited. Well, Donald, those days are over.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
