Erwin McManus Quotes
It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
Quotes to Explore
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.
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There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
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My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
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I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.
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In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist.
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Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?
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It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
