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 can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• 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

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• 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

• Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Society
  • Learn

• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • People
  • Character
  • Chance

• 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
  • Blue
  • Said
  • Nobody

• I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

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

  

  Orson Welles
  • Order
  • Now
  • Through

• Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Alone

• My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it's a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• Is it reasonable to suppose that we can apply a broad-spectrum insecticide to kill the burrowing larval stages of a crop-destroying insect ... without also killing the 'good' insects whose function may be the essential one of breaking down organic matter and maintaining healthy soil?

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Good
  • May

• My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • High
  • City
  • Water

• The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Mind

• 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