"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there."

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Penn Jillette

#Ideas Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Culture Quotes

“When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and, with the help of Him who notes the sparrowâ€™s fall, I mean to fight for my down-trodden race while life lasts.”

Source : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.6, University of Nevada Press
“I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.”
“When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2003). “Why Girls Are Weird: A Novel”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
“I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.”
“Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.”
“Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must have: no central bank; no fixed rations between gold and silver; no bail-outs; no suspension of gold payments or other bank frauds; no monetization of debt; and no inflation of the money supply, all of which have proved so disastrous in the past.”
“Marriage is like a 5,000- piece jigsaw of the sky.”
“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

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