Penn Jillette Quotes

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

Penn Jillette

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FreeBelieveLegalYouWantRight

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

Jennifer Damiano

MusicRockListenRock MusicIndie

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

John Catsimatidis

ToughKidsLotHomes

When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.

John Rocha

CollegeMeNobodyLeftExpectedDid

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Tom Holt

ChildhoodPoetryGrowOutNastyFew

I was shaped by my mistakes.

Janice Dickinson

MistakesShaped

I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.

Jonah Peretti

LifeBestThinkSomeoneYouContent

I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'

Johnny Gimble

ManPhoneSaidFirstHimPay

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

Dick Cavett

FatherBlessingVoiceYouPerfect

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

Dick Dale

MindThinkYouMouthArgumentBlood

Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!

Deborah Sampson

HappySunBraveWorldIndependence

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

William James

RestEnemyGreatestMayOurTruths

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

Ringo Starr

GoodMusicAgePeopleThinkYou

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