Bill Engvall Quotes
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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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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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
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See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?
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I want to be in 'Star Wars.' That would be amazing.
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Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.
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Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
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I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.
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I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
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