Erwin McManus Quotes
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
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Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.
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The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace
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Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
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Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
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Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.
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I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.
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You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.
