Penn Jillette Quotes
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
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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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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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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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After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.
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The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
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Why limit yourself to one discipline or field of study?
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Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
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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.
