Penn Jillette Quotes
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.Penn Jillette
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins -
Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'
Larry the Cable Guy -
I'm not politically correct.
Kary Mullis -
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
Ed Sheeran -
I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
Wayne Dyer -
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
Edan Lepucki -
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
Wendell Berry -
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
Caitlin Moran -
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
Barack Obama
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
Venus Williams -
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz -
There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
Patricia Ireland -
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
Saint Augustine -
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
Dan Quayle -
I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
Kate Walsh
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Cornelia Otis Skinner -
I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
Frank McCourt -
As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.
Jeff Greenfield -
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
Penn Jillette