Bill Engvall Quotes
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
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I wasn't from the streets, but I was in the streets. I had a good family, nice home - you know, I can't say I grew up with nothing... but I chose to hang in the streets.
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People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
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There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.
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The factory workers say that it’s impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, 'Where did you get the watch?'
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America loves to watch people growing and getting better.
