Penn Jillette Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. -
I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
Sam Smith -
All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
Rachel Bilson -
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru
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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 -
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci -
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
Manish Dayal -
Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
Faith Prince -
It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
Haley Joel Osment
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
Jack O'Brien -
I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
Xavier Dolan -
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone -
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Karl Kraus -
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde -
My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
Gary Locke
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long -
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
Jeff Goodell -
It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
David Zucker -
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
John Major -
I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.
Bill Foster -
A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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