"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."

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Penn Jillette

#Records Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.”
“Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.”
“As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.”
“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”
“We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.”
“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.291, Pan Macmillan
“We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?”

Source : "The Spiritual Man".
“I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.”

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