Penn Jillette Quotes

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

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• It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Good
  • May
  • Truth

• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Start

• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Like
  • Adult

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Try
  • Very
  • Eating

• I love the hip-hop nation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Nation
  • Hip Hop

• I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Friend
  • Government
  • Evidence

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Think
  • Never
  • Judge

• Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• While the move to central clearing has made the system safer, we need to make sure that the central counterparties have the resources and risk-management practices to withstand plausible but severe shocks.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Risk
  • Management

• Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Time

• There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.

  

  Chin Han
  • Life
  • Experience

• I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded; people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • People
  • Travel

• The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

  

  John McCain
  • Done

• If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

  

  Penn Jillette
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