Penn Jillette Quotes

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Friends
  • Weird

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Up
  • Step
  • Boss

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
  • Step
  • Admire

• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Culture

• You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Time
  • Home
  • Game

• Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Said
  • Blue
  • Nobody

• Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Order
  • Now
  • Through

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • You

• Programmers can be lazy.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Lazy
  • Programmers

• Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Giving
  • Day
  • Challenge

• Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Man
  • Find

• I don't believe everything Bill tells me about his players. Had they been that good, they'd not only have won the European Cup but the Ryder Cup, the Boat Race and even the Grand National.

  

  Jock Stein
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Boat

• But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Heart
  • Foolish

• I rarely watch TV but I guess I'd watch the weather report since I fly so much.

  

  Fred Schneider
  • Fly

• You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Wall

• Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless. There is any possibility of madness and absurdity that could commence, so you feel that, with this character, you're never really done.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character
  • Endless
  • Limitless

• I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Good
  • Children