Penn Jillette Quotes
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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The law of all modern states takes account of associations, whose members, in theory, pursue the common end with equal zeal. The experience of all associations proves, however, that this is not the case, and that a lively, constant and vigorous awareness of the end is found only in a minority of the associates; an association is really rather like a comet—a large tail of docile followers dragged along by a small dynamic head.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
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At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
