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Bill Engvall Quotes

I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny Time People Without Being Bob

When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.

Music You Look Next Going Studio

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

Truth People Ideas Facts Judge Open

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

Leadership Personality Think Feel

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Best Find Kind Some Screenwriting

In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.

Michael Hastings

Alone Hotel Late News Living Twice

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

Career Bureaucracy More Structure

You can work very hard on a crappy movie.

Stephen McFeely

Work You Hard Movie Crappy Very

Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence, mostly that of Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan - artists no one has ever heard of.

Writing Influence Exercise Long Over

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Country Nobody Nuclear Weapons Wants

I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

Life Change Myself Rest Thought End

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Life Success Children Battle Worry

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

Denise Van Outen

You I Can Want Something One Thing

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