Penn Jillette Quotes

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

Penn Jillette

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PeopleThinkYouCountrySuccessful

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard

FuturePastAmazingCreatingWay

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Robert Griffin III

LifeFootballI AmMeStartGame

If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Ann Coulter

SecurityAirportBoycottGetOnly

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used.

Jeffrey Kluger

BestThinkGrowStrongerWayMuscle

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Andy Warhol

HomeNightStartGoRumorsDogs

I have a lot of hair, and it's quite heavy: Sometimes I'll braid it for a match so it's all together.

Ana Ivanovic

TogetherHairSometimesHeavyMatch

I think a comedian has to be low status on some level; that gives you the right to do all sorts of jokes about all sorts of different kinds of people.

Stewart Lee

PeopleThinkYouRightJokesStatus

The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries - the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan - do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it.

Tom Cotton

WorldCelebrateSmallStand UpStand

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Robert Caro

EffortBecomeExpertMadeBallet

I like to play golf, but not at a country club.

Roger Wang

GolfCountryPlayClubLike

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

Rita Moreno

GoodMyselfPeopleTearsLaborSee

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

Michael Shermer

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