Penn Jillette Quotes

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

Penn Jillette

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GoalsHappinessFreedomBalanceGoal

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

John Dickey

EducationMenEndSeeConscience

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Andrew Sarris

PeopleInfluenceLearnYouNice

I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.

Aneurin Barnard

LoveMyselfThinkI CanImportant

It's weird but I've never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I've always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

Amanda Crew

LoveManWeirdRock StarRockActor

My dad wasn't the best speaker like a Bill Clinton, or a Henry Kissinger, but he had character.

Steven Ford

CharacterBestLikeBill ClintonHe

Even before the world had any cognizance of India as an economy, HCL had made a mark with its microprocessor in the '80s. HCL pioneered modern computing.

Shiv Nadar

WorldIndiaEconomyMarkModernAny

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Tom Hodgkinson

PoetrySupportWorldEmbraceUseless

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

OpportunityTimeServiceExperience

Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt.

Mitski

CommunityMyselfMeToo MuchAdapt

I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.

Johnny Ramone

TimeGuitarDoingFastPlayAlways

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

Bono

HeartPhilosophyI CanTaxIrish

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

Pope Paul VI

MemoriesSafeLeftPhony

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