Bill Engvall Quotes
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I love working with women.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
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To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.
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If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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This period of blue monochrome was the product of my pursuit of the indefinable in painting which that master, Eugène Delacroix Romantic French painter was able to indicate even in his day.
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Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003)
