Bill Engvall Quotes
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
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I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.
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We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.
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'Awake' was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn't know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.
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I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
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I always wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be John Wayne.
