Penn Jillette Quotes
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
Quotes to Explore
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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Free love sounds great.
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We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.
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It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
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I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.
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I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.
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I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
