Bill Engvall Quotes
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
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It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
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A lot of harm has come in all eras from people attached to one view of 'spiritual' truth.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.
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A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.
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after drunkenly getting his ear pierced
