Penn Jillette Quotes

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

Penn Jillette

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FutureArtReligionHappyThink

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Spike Jonze

ChildhoodMemoryThinkParentMy Own

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

ChangeTimeGenerationSameComplain

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.

Michael Keaton

CharacterNeverThanLessParallels

In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it.

Michael Keaton

FamilyWordsPlayJust BecauseMean

We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.

Mitch McConnell

ParentsThinkBackStopNeedGoing

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Louis D. Brandeis

GovernmentLawEndConvictionBring

I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.

Joshua Bell

TeacherGreatMeTreatWineLoved

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Christopher Walken

BusinessPersonalityNew YorkCity

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Christopher Walken

MePotentialOffendedAlwaysBeen

Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.

Chris Sacca

ProblemsMathBeenEverBiggest

I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.

Brantley Gilbert

BestSongYouDownCountryKnow

The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.

Bonnie Tyler

SuccessBestParentsHouseBuyAble

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