Erwin McManus Quotes
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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I hate seaweed.
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It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.
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People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
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If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.
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I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.
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A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
