Bill Engvall Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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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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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
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I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people of South Africa is something I carry with me every day.
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
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Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.
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Live your life like one big Thank You!!!
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I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.
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Order in the societies they describe is the result of a dense social network where people have an intimate understanding of each other and the threat of violence is a continuous force for preserving order because of its implications for other members of society.
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I thought 'RV' stood for 'Recreational Vehicle.' No! It stands for 'Ruins Vacations.'
