Penn Jillette Quotes
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.
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GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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I don't really prepare for each role the same way.
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How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
