Bill Engvall Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.
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People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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Europe has such an expansive history.
