Bill Engvall Quotes
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.
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Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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I would like the world to know that Yemeni women are strong, and if empowered, they can achieve. The world needs to look beyond stereotypes and dress code. In our hearts, we are just human beings who want to live a dignified life. Is that too much to ask for?
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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I don't watch much television.
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What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on law with an emphasis on what is permitted.
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You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
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I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.
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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
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A Decade of Laughs (2004)
