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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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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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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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
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Imitators? All right! Disciples if you like. But disciples be damned. It's not interesting.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.
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We may not be able to accomplish everything we can dream, but we will not accomplish anything without our dreams.
