Bill Engvall Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
V. S. Naipaul -
I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
Adam Carolla -
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
Dan Carter
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
Patricia Polacco -
Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
Faye Dunaway -
The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman -
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
Jackson Browne -
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Earl Warren -
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
Wen Jiabao
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
Jack Prelutsky -
The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
Talcott Parsons -
If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
Walter Gropius -
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
Sally Schneider -
I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
Randy Harrison -
That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.
Zach Wamp
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I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
Buzz Aldrin -
In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
Victor LaValle -
Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
Oscar Wilde -
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
Larry Bird -
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
Brian Andreas -
I love playing the bitter guy.
Bill Engvall