Bill Engvall Quotes
When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or let me rephrase: I've been doing this so long that I don't have to experiment as much. You always want to evolve and change, but if I go in and I know it's a certain type of song, I know exactly where I'm going to place the mics.
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Lately Marge's memory had grown weak, which is to say that it no longer contained the past time on deposit there, it was not strong enough to keep shut up the moments, the mornings and evenings, of her long life, its seals broke, and her memories ran together mingling, indistinguishable from the present. Her memory had grown incontinent with age.
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True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.
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By the way, there's a place on Hollywood Boulevard where you can get a _____ for twenty bucks.
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When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'
