Bill Engvall Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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I have fabulous children.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.
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When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed and sold in Britain, goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation price disparity that goes for all raw materials.
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Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
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about an incident in a coffee shop
