Bill Engvall Quotes
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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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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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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 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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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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There must be a special place in hell reserved for you.I've been to hell. It's a better place than this.
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I didn't consider myself to be pretty, not at all.
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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
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Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
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The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.
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There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
