Bill Engvall Quotes
Engvall's car breaks down on a highway, there's smoke pouring out of the hood, and a motorist stops to help him.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
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I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.
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I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
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Engvall's car breaks down on a highway, there's smoke pouring out of the hood, and a motorist stops to help him.
