Penn Jillette Quotes
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.Penn Jillette
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
Kali Hawk -
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter -
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
Hans Hofmann -
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
Imtiaz Ali -
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
Laura Kightlinger -
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel -
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
Becky Lynch
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt -
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
Laura Wilkinson -
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
Gary Allan
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
Vernon Wells -
All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
Ava DuVernay -
We were hitting these marks like getting the Grammy nominations and playing with the Beach Boys, but those were things we never thought in a million years we'd ever accomplish.
Mark Pontius -
People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
Sade Adu -
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.
Ayumi Hamasaki -
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
Penn Jillette