Penn Jillette Quotes

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

Penn Jillette

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LifeChangeChange The WorldWorld

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

Johannes Kepler

StarsSmallPhilosophyEarthSides

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

John Lydon

TogetherNeverPunkComingImagery

Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

Robert Stigwood

YearsWonderfulThingsSomeTaken

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

Matthew Weiner

PeopleYouSellingTrySellWho

I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.

Matt Frewer

LifeRestThoughtBetterMy Life

Love is itself an expression of strength.

Ann Maxwell

LoveStrengthLove IsExpression

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Stephen King

LoveMeBlessedFeelWriteAlways

The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up.

Tony McCoy

DayWinGoWantWillOut

Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.

Tom Brokaw

LifeAgeGreatTimeDepression

Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow.

Mary Pilon

FutureRealityGrowRoomExciting

In the jungle, size is king. Women like big men. That's just evolution.

Mike Cernovich

WomenMenKingEvolutionJungleBig

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

Josh Turner

LoveMusicGreatPeopleWorldThink

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