Penn Jillette Quotes
The Glenn Beck Program, April 12, 2013. Edited, including omission of some non-germane remarks. YouTubePenn Jillette
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I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.
Randy Moss -
I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
Laura Linney -
I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
Gaines Adams -
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
Gary Sinise -
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
Jack Kilby -
Genius: the superhuman in man.
Victor Hugo
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Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.
Walt Whitman -
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
Charles Spurgeon -
No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
Ai Weiwei -
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
Arthur Koestler -
Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.
Mary Beard -
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
Jason Alexander
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The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.
Neil Patrick Harris -
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby -
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.
Jillian Hervey -
Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.
Arancha Gonzalez -
The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'
Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones -
A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'
Jim Caviezel
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Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?' 2
Joe Lieberman -
We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.
Sam Graves -
I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.
Marla Sokoloff -
It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.
Joel Osteen -
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
Barney Frank -
The Glenn Beck Program, April 12, 2013. Edited, including omission of some non-germane remarks. YouTube
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