Penn Jillette Quotes

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

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• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Problems
  • Need
  • Create

• I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Talk
  • Colleagues

• The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Party
  • Values

• My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Great
  • Way
  • Enjoy

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Peace

• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Philanthropy

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Pure

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Game
  • Religious
  • Years

• It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Men
  • High

• I don't want to die an old lady.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Want
  • Die
  • Old

• I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.

  

  Darlene Love
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.

  

  George Fox
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Today
  • Death
  • Illness

• You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

  

  Lennon Parham
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Judging

• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Mistakes

• TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Death
  • Reality
  • Dying