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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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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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no 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 see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.
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A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
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No, I've never played baseball in my life.
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When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!
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I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.
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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!'
