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'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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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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I love that I came up this way. First of all, I have nine close friends, and it's hard to find people you can trust and lean on in this industry.
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a culture things are out of balance, perverted, and inverted. Things that are ridiculous are worshipped, and things that are important are ridiculed. I think that's something worth thinking about.
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But [Jonsson] did all the Scandi kind of style to it and put the kitchen extension on.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
