Bill Engvall Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.
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Jo, his wife, remarked on Hopper's painting 'Cape Cod morning', 1950: 'It is a woman looking out to see if the weather is good enough to hang out her wash'. Then Edward Hopper reacted: 'did I say that? You're making it Norman Rockwell. From my point of view she's just looking out the window, just looking out the window'.
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My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.
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Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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about how he and his wife can't go out on a date, since they're married
