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Penn Jillette Quotes

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Business Conquer Learn Show Business

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

People Treat Think You Important

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

Family Racism True Meat Humour Lean

There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about.

God Me Things Kinds Wants Very

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Political Important More Institutions

I feel good about my first professional fight. I was ready for it, and it was a good win for me.

Good Fight Me Win Feel Good Feel

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

History Past Free Reading Thinking

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Effort People Think Train Young

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

Moral Talk Social Social Issues Than

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Change Power People Own Long-Term

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

Peter McWilliams

Life Struggle Wiggle

I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Change Believe Problem Climate Change

Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.

Richard Phillips

Painting Makeup Face Think Body Top

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