Penn Jillette Quotes
I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.Penn Jillette
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
Rachel McAdams -
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm mostly vegetarian.
Zuleikha Robinson -
I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth -
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
Irving Babbitt -
The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
Maggie Q
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted Engstrom -
From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
Dada Vaswani -
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
Randy Pausch -
Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
Edmund Morgan -
There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
Sam Jaeger
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush -
Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo -
Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.
Fabrizio Moreira -
I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
Barbara Block -
I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
Iqbal Quadir -
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
Joanne Rowling
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
Bill Bryson -
One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.
Albert Einstein -
Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.
Elizabeth Jane Howard -
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf -
When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.
Artie Lange -
I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
Penn Jillette