Penn Jillette Quotes
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin -
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver -
I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
Wayne Rogers -
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine -
I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
G. W. Bailey
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Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid -
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
Damian Loeb -
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
Karlie Kloss -
If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
Danica McKellar -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman -
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
Pamela Stephenson -
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Fareed Zakaria -
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
H. G. Bissinger -
There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
Finn Jones -
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
Sam Hunt
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I'm way more American than George Bush and Dick Cheney.
Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band -
When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
Radhanath Swami -
That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen -
I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.
Jesmyn Ward -
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
Larry Niven -
The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
Penn Jillette