Penn Jillette Quotes
The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
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Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
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The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.
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I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.
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Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.
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I quite like the idea of family. That's probably the greatest achievement in the world. I've got a lot to achieve workwise - I'd love to direct - but family would be good.
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I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.
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Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
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The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
