Penn Jillette Quotes

If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

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• I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Intelligent

• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Distance
  • Potential
  • Horizon

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Moving
  • Hands
  • Golf

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• I think I'm going to be around awhile.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Think
  • Going
  • Awhile

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Young

• The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Why
  • Black
  • Daily

• T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Work
  • Question

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Yoga

• On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Numbers
  • Data

• It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Important
  • Me
  • Support

• For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Support
  • City
  • Honor

• Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Humor

• A me non par che ben deciso,Né che ben giusto alcun giudicio cada,Ove prima non s'oda quanto nieghiLa parte o affermi, e sue ragioni alleghi.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Norway

• I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • People
  • Done
  • Help

• Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Dark
  • Television

• If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

  

  Penn Jillette
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