Bill Engvall Quotes
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
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At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.
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That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.
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Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.
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...so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
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A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.
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Here's Your Sign Reloaded (2003)
