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Things Quotes by Penn Jillette
- Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I…
- Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.
- When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and…
- One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and…
- Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
- I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
- I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
- My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
- A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.'…
- But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with…
- Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick…
- I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of…
- I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are…
- I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get…
- 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…
- One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and…
- The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle