Bill Engvall Quotes
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
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My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that's pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.
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Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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I had the perfect level, growing up, between being normal and having a little taste into Hollywood. People would recognize me once in a while, but I could still go out and have my life.
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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Jeff's, Larry's, and Ron's Heres Your Sign.
