I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.
I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.
With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard t...
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.
I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
