Penn Jillette Quotes
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
Quotes to Explore
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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I have lived enough to know great things will unfold for me externally only if I allow them to unfold for me internally.
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I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
