Penn Jillette Quotes
We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
Penn Jillette
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
Rachel Zoe
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
Patrick Macnee
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie
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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 clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Ted Nugent
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
Maajid Nawaz
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
Sally Schneider
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
Rachael Harris
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
Felicia Day
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
Rain
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Edmund Morgan
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We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
Dan Gable
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
Yancy Butler
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
Yuna
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
Jack Horner
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Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
Jane Siberry
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
Garry Shandling
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Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.
John Allison
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Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
Barack Obama
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Cooking is a weird thing. In homes, I'd wager it's still women who do more of the cooking.
Monica Hesse
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We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
Penn Jillette
