Penn Jillette Quotes

Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

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• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• You keep learning all the time.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Time
  • You
  • Learning

• Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Death
  • Purpose

• I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Help
  • Me
  • Said

• The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Moral
  • Self

• It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Women
  • Society
  • Best

• In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Clear
  • Seeing

• I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

  

  OMI
  • Artist
  • Reggae
  • Dancehall

• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World

• In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Free

• Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Life
  • House
  • City

• The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • High
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • History
  • Chicago

• We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Speak
  • Debate
  • Solidarity

• Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Fun
  • Surfing

• In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Personality

• When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.

  

  Delroy Lindo
  • Up

• With 'The Forty Rules of Love,' I wanted to write a love story. But I wanted a love story with a spiritual dimension. For me, that took me to Rumi. And from Rumi, I went to Shams of Tabriz. That's how the story took shape.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Spiritual

• I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

  

  Jerome Flynn
  • Society

• One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

  

  Ezra Cornell
  • Life
  • Affair
  • Companion

• I've got 11 brothers and sisters.

  

  John Boehner

• What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • Experience
  • High
  • Technology

• Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

  

  Penn Jillette