Bill Engvall Quotes
(mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) 'Hey...' (cracks) You paid to see it... 'hey... Ever eaten a worm?' (2nd fish) 'What? When did you ever eat a worm?' 'Oh, one day, me and my buddy were laying on the bank... trying to catch our breath...' - thank you, for those of you who got that...
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
Yelawolf
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
J. B. Pritzker
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
Washed Out
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
Lady Gaga
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
Kate Voegele
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
Ed Belfour
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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
Ted Allen
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
Edgar Ramirez
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
Victoria Osteen
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
Jackee Harry
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
Becky G
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
Kamala Harris
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
Magnus Carlsen
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No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
Walt Mossberg
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Yellow's more like, I'm not trying to be this sexy vixen or anything, obviously. I'm a very friendly person, and I literally do just want to be your friend. I think all of that is wrapped up in yellow. It seems to work. I like being in it.
Cam
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I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
Lucinda Williams
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I feel similar to a lot of people. I don't feel unique. So what I'm trying to do in my films is provide something for people like me, but also a collection of scenes that instigate.
Derek Cianfrance
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I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories and Hemingway. To hear what their voices were like is amazing. Whether they're reading well or not, it's great to listen to the intonation and the beat of the guy who wrote the story.
T. C. Boyle
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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
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I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.
Sigrid Agren
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(mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) 'Hey...' (cracks) You paid to see it... 'hey... Ever eaten a worm?' (2nd fish) 'What? When did you ever eat a worm?' 'Oh, one day, me and my buddy were laying on the bank... trying to catch our breath...' - thank you, for those of you who got that...
Bill Engvall