Penn Jillette Quotes

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Penn Jillette

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In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

Jessica Chastain

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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

Andrew Wiles

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois

BusinessWarCombinationSport

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

Maya Hawke

SuccessThinkYouWantWayTalk

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Matthew Vaughn

PhilosophyHardRightEveryoneMay

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

Jeff Goldblum

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There is no success without hardship.

Sophocles

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I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.

Ruth Rendell

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I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.

Lobsang Tenzin

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To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

David Soul

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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

Condoleezza Rice

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