Penn Jillette Quotes
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
C. J. Box -
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
Callan McAuliffe -
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. Joshua -
Time is generally the best doctor.
Ovid -
What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
Salmon P. Chase -
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
Patricia Millett
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
Halsey -
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Omar Bongo -
I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
Sam Claflin -
The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
Urjit Patel -
I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
Naomi Klein -
My goal isn't to shock.
Taylor Momsen -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman -
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
Sam Shepard -
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Samuel Butler -
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
Jack Youngblood
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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
Alfred Marshall -
A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.
Frederick Douglass -
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams -
Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.
Franz von Holzhausen -
I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.
Pilou Asbaek -
I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
Penn Jillette