Penn Jillette Quotes
The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I like doing my own stunts.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.
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Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.
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Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.
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The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
