Penn Jillette Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
-
I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
-
I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
-
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
-
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
-
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
-
We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
-
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
-
My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
-
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
-
I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
-
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
-
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
-
Musical theater is one of my passions.
-
I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
-
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
-
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
-
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
-
In most science-fiction pictures, the black guy is either an engineer or a radio operator, and he is the first guy killed - gone from the movie.
-
Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
-
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
-
I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
-
One of the things that I've realized in my life is that nothing really happens unless people believe in you.
-
Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
