Penn Jillette Quotes
Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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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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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
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We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.
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Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.
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For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
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Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for that, and that's just terrific, and that creates inequality.
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Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.
