Erwin McManus Quotes
Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
Quotes to Explore
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.
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Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.
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A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
