Penn Jillette Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
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A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
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I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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I think work begets work.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it
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CLINTON: I have a feeling that by, the end of this evening, I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.
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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.
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People in China criticized President Obama for chewing gum while entering the economic summit in Beijing. They're saying he looked like a rapper. Then again, to be fair, in China I look like a rapper.
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.
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Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
