Penn Jillette Quotes
We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.Penn Jillette
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. Travers -
I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
Zach LaVine -
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban -
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
Harold Ramis -
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
Vince Vaughn
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer -
Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
Wagner Moura -
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
Hansika Motwani -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
Nastia Liukin
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
Sam Trammell -
I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
Wayne Knight -
I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
Jackie Evancho
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The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.
Michael Kiwanuka -
There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel -
My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I could take out one piece of work to look at.
Hubert de Givenchy -
I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
Penn Jillette