Penn Jillette Quotes

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

Rachel Platten
- People
- World
- Good
You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Wayne Dyer
- Up
- World
- Choose
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

Octavia Spencer
- People
- Life
- Childhood
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

J. G. Ballard
- War
- Father
- Year
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Irwin Shaw
- Good
- Remember
- Bad
I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

Jaclyn Smith
- People
- Believe
- Girl