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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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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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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I love Willie Nelson's 'Phases And Stages'; there's so many songs from The Band and Bob Dylan that have gotten me through hard times, like 'Tears Of Rage.' I love Karen Dalton's 'In My Own Time' and Skip James.
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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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.
