Penn Jillette Quotes

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

Penn Jillette

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• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Eye

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Party
  • Values

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Day
  • Tree
  • Bench

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.

  

  Larry David
  • Always
  • Find
  • Nuts

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Actually
  • Divorced
  • Annulments

• People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Mind
  • Running

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

  

  John Ruskin

• I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

  

  Duncan Sheik
  • Music

• I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.

  

  Bill Le
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Space

• It would be great if people returned to areas of the country that need talented people with good economic prospects. Our country would really benefit if those who went to elite universities, who started businesses, who started nonprofits, weren't just doing so on the coasts.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Words
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Earth
  • Dying