Penn Jillette Quotes
As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.Penn Jillette
Quotes to Explore
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
Ada Lovelace -
Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
Dan Hill -
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi -
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Fay Weldon -
I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
Katee Sackhoff -
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
Irvine Welsh -
My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
Taylor Swift -
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville -
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
Francesca Annis
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
Captain Beefheart -
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
Malcolm de Chazal -
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid -
I get to meet different directors and different people.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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So extravagant is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees,... .
John Muir -
Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.
Felicity Jones -
There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.
Johnny Ball -
As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.
Penn Jillette