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Penn Jillette Quotes

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Penn Jillette

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1955

Topics

Culture Ideas Famous Someone You

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

John Candy

Myself Movies Watch Get Critical

Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

Jerry Lewis

Walk Simple Interesting Now See

Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking.

Andre Aciman

Thinking Nationalism Powerful Rise

Fighting at home does bring pressure - of course it does. But I've always thrived on that.

Michael Bisping

Home Pressure Fighting Always Bring

I am not an over-the-top kind of person.

Amy Purdy

I Am Person Kind Over-The-Top Am

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

Tony Danza

Father Man City Garbage Always Guy

If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum.

Robin Sloan

Myself I Am Game Moments Down Sit

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Rosa Luxemburg

Process Reality Creating Development

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Michael Moriarty

Marriage Water Political Person Out

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

Deborah Harkness

Family Love Love Is Building Easy

It's very American, making a lot of money.

Claire McCaskill

Money American Making Very Lot

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

Chuck Mangione

Together Fall Way Right Whatever