Erwin McManus Quotes
A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I've sort of been an anthropologist of modern America, in a non-academic way. Whether it's Marines or Tupperware salesladies, high end audiophiles or bike couriers, I'm fascinated by the hallmarks of the American tribe.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
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One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.
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It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.
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A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
