Bill Engvall Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
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Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.
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after watching the food teasing scene in '9 1/2 Weeks'
