Erwin McManus Quotes
We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.
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What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
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Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.
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As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.
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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams.
