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Bill Engvall Quotes

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 27, 1957

Topics

Funny People Me Thought Be Different

I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.

New York Sick Thought Nostalgia New

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

Light War Prison Critics Arguing

It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

Funny Great Working Those Guys Jim

I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult circumstances - sometimes they do wrong things and make mistakes, but who doesn't? And who wants to read about somebody who never does?

Best Mistakes People Think Doing

Under the leadership of President Obama and a whole host of partners, including nonprofits, foundations, and advocates, the Department of Labor has made historic investments in community colleges, apprenticeships, coding boot camps, and summer jobs.

Leadership Community Summer Labor

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

Success Personality Think Feel Same

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Character Enjoy Trying Find Say Him

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

Faith Tree Breakfast Saying Virtue

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Better Easy Find Difficult Fault

American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.

Business Government American America

I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.

Think Trying You Too Much Forget Up

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

Truth Sea Simple Ocean Woman I Am

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