Penn Jillette Quotes
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was.
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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
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You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.
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I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.
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We have to evolve … I will make sure we keep what we’re good at. We’re renowned for our physicality. We have to be a bit smarter with where we want to use our physicality.
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
