Penn Jillette Quotes
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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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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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.
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It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.
