Bill Engvall Quotes
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I've never liked the idea of working for other people.
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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
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Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.
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I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.
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I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!
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The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.
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Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.
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There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
