Penn Jillette Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
-
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
-
I was unbelievably lucky.
-
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
-
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
-
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
-
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
-
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
-
I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
-
I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
-
I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
-
We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
-
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
-
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
-
Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
-
I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
-
In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
-
People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
-
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
-
... we condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.
-
Centuries of their labor would not reveal to them any more of Creation than they already knew. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.
-
Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
-
Technology adds nothing to art.
