Erwin McManus Quotes
You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.
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You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.
