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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There are no record companies in Waikiki.
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[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.
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Meditation is waiting on God.
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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.
