Bill Engvall Quotes
I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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Well I can understand why men want it to be legal. Obviously they're all hoping they might get to marry me someday. I hate to burst their bubble, but they should just give it up now. Zach Braff doesn't sway that way, you know?
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I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.
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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
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I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.
