Bill Engvall Quotes
My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
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Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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My belief is that if we take away that right to bear arms, the only people that are going to have them are... the ones breaking into your house.
