Penn Jillette Quotes

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

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• It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

  

  Young Buck
  • Me
  • Story
  • Honor

• You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Going

• On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Reading
  • Best
  • Self

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • World
  • Important
  • Business

• When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Boy

• We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Respect

• My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Priority

• I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Professional

• My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Father
  • Strong

• Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • You
  • Either
  • Bald

• When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Gold
  • Chinese
  • Coming

• If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Strong
  • Strength

• God is a verb, not a noun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Verb
  • Noun

• Without a song, each day would be a century.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Day
  • Without

• I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Walking
  • Victory

• I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Important
  • History
  • Beginning

• I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Musician
  • Build

• By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'

  

  John Krasinski
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Wednesday

• We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Love
  • Seeing
  • Save

• It's an opportunity that's there for all of us, like a life raft or preserver to hang onto when there's nothing else or no one else around because man, we're human and no matter what, one way or another, everyone of us in our lives, at some point in time, are going to feel alone.

  

  Chuck Ragan
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

  

  Penn Jillette