Penn Jillette Quotes

'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Inspired
  • Designer
  • Vintage

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Nothing
  • Talking
  • Someone

• I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Work
  • Talent
  • Hard Work

• I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Body
  • Letters

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Green
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Done
  • Age

• What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Different
  • Ideas

• I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Jazz

• I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Work
  • Love
  • Poet

• Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Been
  • Well
  • Taiwan

• The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • First
  • Thing
  • Intensity

• I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Always
  • See
  • Snake

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Father
  • Think
  • Interest

• When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • First
  • Weather

• What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • Christian

• I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.

  

  John Hurt
  • Amazing

• I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • People
  • Work

• Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

  

  Amanda Peet
  • Stop

• 'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Integrity
  • Celebrity