Penn Jillette Quotes
We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.
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I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
