Bill Engvall Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.
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I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.
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I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.
