Bill Engvall Quotes
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.
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People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
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I wore some stupid brocade dress to my prom.
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People all over are finding themselves in jobs they never thought they'd be in.
