Penn Jillette Quotes
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
-
Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
-
I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
-
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
-
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
-
The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
-
There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
-
I don't mind a bikini bottom.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
-
I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
-
At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
-
I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
-
I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
-
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
-
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
-
The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.
-
I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
-
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.
-
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
-
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
-
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
