Penn Jillette Quotes
I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.Penn Jillette
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I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.
Candice S. Miller -
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback -
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid -
Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
Washed Out -
I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
Taissa Farmiga -
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
Halima Aden -
No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
Edmund Morgan -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
Iris Apfel -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
Edie Campbell
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
Mahershala Ali -
I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
Namie Amuro -
Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
Zhang Ziyi -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
My career is an open book, but my life is not.
Barry Bonds
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
Vanessa Paradis -
I think I had a stress fracture before I broke my foot, and I think that was absolutely because I was not getting enough nutrients.
Adam Rippon -
If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
Kim Dotcom -
Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.
J. P. Morgan -
When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.
Martha Stewart -
I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
Penn Jillette