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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Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
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These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.
