Penn Jillette Quotes
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
Padma Lakshmi -
I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
Kate O'Mara -
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
Gary Oldman -
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
M. Stanton Evans -
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
Ralph Chaplin -
As long as I am still interested and curious, I enjoy getting up in the morning, but I can't say I have a happy smile on my face 24/7.
Harriet Walter
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
Adam Davidson -
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac -
The products I review are typically lent to me by their manufacturers for a few weeks or months. I return any products I am lent for review, except for items of minor value that companies typically don't want back. In the case of these items, I either discard them or give them away to charity.
Walt Mossberg -
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Are we meant to take more than we giveor are we meant to be kind?And if only fools are kind, Alfie,then I guess it's wise to be cruel.
Hal David -
Am I not with hosts making a din? I would not cease, between two hosts, without gore. Am I not he that is called Gorlassar? My belt was a rainbow to my foe.
Taliesin
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Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang 'Tilly-loo!'Till away they flew,-And they never came back to me!
Edward Lear -
I'd always listened to my parents' Bee Gees albums.
Britt Daniel -
It's important for me to write songs that feel good to sing every night and remind me of my core, truest beliefs.
Lucy Dacus -
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
Victor Hugo -
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
Wolfman Jack -
Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
A. J. Muste
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She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
Vladimir Nabokov -
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
Confucius -
Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.
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