Paul Engle Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.
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He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.
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The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
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The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
