Bill Engvall Quotes
I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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I do what I can do to help my defense.
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I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.
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I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.
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On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.
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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I find a car I like, I stick with it.
