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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
— Penn Jillette
If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself.
— Penn Jillette
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
— Robert Penn Warren
The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
— Penn Jillette
He is commanded to be strong, with his only equipment the Word of God and implicit obedience to it! Such was Christ's equipment.
— Jessie Penn-Lewis
Even one person's misunderstanding [of a blue joke] may not be worth the next guy's laugh.
— Penn Jillette
Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
— Sean Penn
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
— Sean Penn
What care though rival cities soar
Along the stormy coast,
Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Along the stormy coast,
Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,
If Boston knew the most! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day - my style is more jeans and T-shirts - but it's kind of fun.
— Dylan Penn
The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
— Penn Jillette
It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go
— B.J. Penn
I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time.
— Madonna Ciccone
One of the great "theologians" of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: "When everything gets answered, it's fake. The mystery is the truth."21
— Rob Bell
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
— Penn Jillette
I think life's an irrational obsession.
— Sean Penn
Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.
— Penn Jillette
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
— Sean Penn
If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.
— Penn Jillette
It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room.
— Penn Dayton Badgley
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
— Penn Jillette
I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.
— Penn Jillette
Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
— Sean Penn
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
— Penn Jillette
The nightmare of Trump is not that he doesn't care what people think; it's that he desperately cares what people think.
— Penn Jillette
I'll get mobbed by literally 40 school girls. It's like being a full fledged star, and that's surreal.
— Penn Dayton Badgley
I don't know what's best for other people.
— Penn Jillette
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
— Penn Jillette
In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
— Zak Penn
The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
— Penn Jillette
Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.
— Penn Jillette
Anybody who's in favor of gun control is a fucking moron.
— Jackie Mason
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.
— Penn Jillette
You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
— Penn Jillette
As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.
— Vilmos Zsigmond
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
— William Penn
It is a human defect
to try to know one's self by the self of another. — Robert Penn Warren
to try to know one's self by the self of another. — Robert Penn Warren
Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.
— Dylan Penn
I'm an amazing mama's boy.
— Penn Jillette
'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
— Penn Jillette
People could connect with me ... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".
— B.J. Penn
So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity. — Robert Penn Warren
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity. — Robert Penn Warren
Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.
— Tim Holden
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
— Penn Jillette
I longed to know the world's name.
— Robert Penn Warren
I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about
— B.J. Penn
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.
— William Penn
He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.
— William Penn
I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.
— Penn Dayton Badgley
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.
— William Penn
Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.
— Penn Jillette
The whole selfie generation - it's just not my vibe.
— Dylan Penn
We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
— Sean Penn
Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.
— Penn Jillette
From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.
— Jim Norton
There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
— Penn Jillette
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
— William Penn
And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's
— Robert Penn Warren
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
— William Penn
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
— Penn Jillette
I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.
— Sean Penn
Dying
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? — Robert Penn Warren
shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying? — Robert Penn Warren
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
— Irving Penn
Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
— William Penn
I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.
— Penn Jillette
We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
— Penn Jillette
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
— Kal Penn
As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.
— Penn Jillette
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
— Dylan Penn
There should be an ease and clarity to anything that's real and from the heart. Things that are true shouldn't have tricks.
— Penn Jillette
Thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute. — William Shakespeare
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute. — William Shakespeare
When everything gets answered, it's fake.
— Sean Penn
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
— Sean Penn
There's not a lot of good movies being made.
— Sean Penn
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
— Kal Penn
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
— Sean Penn
I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
— Sean Penn
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
— Penn Jillette
Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.
— Joanna Penn