Penn Jillette Quotes

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

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• After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Loved
  • Alcohol
  • Salt

• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• The Wonder Woman that you see in 'Batman v Superman' is a woman who has been around, and she's very experienced. She understands a lot about man. Whereas, in the standalone movie, we are telling the grown-up story, Diana becoming Wonder Woman, and this was a story that was never told before.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • She
  • Movie

• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • She
  • Age
  • Best

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Rock

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Today

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Something
  • Selling
  • Clients

• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • English
  • Kid
  • Talk

• Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Always
  • Mexico
  • Territory

• Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • American
  • Thanks

• All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya

• I've never met a couple yet who, when they were walking down the aisle, said, 'What we want is three years of happiness, two years of [torment], a messy divorce and 15 years of fighting over custody of the kids.'

  

  Wade Horn
  • Kids
  • Fighting
  • Couple

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the '90s, too. Then I got a part in 'The Aviator' and couldn't believe it.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Believe
  • Teenager

• I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Believe
  • Done