Erwin McManus Quotes
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
 
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	I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.   
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	This is Earth. Isn't it hot?   
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	I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.   
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	Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.   
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	In my humble opinion, change is stupid.   
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	It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.   
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	Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.   
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	I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.   
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	But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.   
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	I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.   
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	I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.   
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	Affluence means influence.   
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	One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.   
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	And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.   
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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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	What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.   
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	Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.   
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	The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.   
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	A man is a lonely thing.   
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	In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.   
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	The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.   
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	Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.   
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	Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					