Erwin McManus Quotes
For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones. I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music. I think that's happening. With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It's your way and it's your child.
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I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
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Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
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Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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However much you may have expressed love through your life, you can always express love more.
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For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.
