Penn Jillette Quotes

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• A mom can't afford to be sick.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Mom
  • Sick
  • Afford

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Try

• I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • America
  • Mother
  • Career

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Play
  • Fighting
  • Sports

• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Spirit
  • Vote
  • Suffrage

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Day
  • Never

• I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Creative

• I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Temple

• Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • War
  • Tired

• I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Running
  • Amazing

• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Productivity

• If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Life
  • You
  • Whole

• Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Love

• False modesty is better than none.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • False
  • Modesty
  • None

• I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Life
  • World