Penn Jillette Quotes
You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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But not all books must be universally approved or applauded to bring meaning; books are, ultimately, the most personal of media. They can be important to only one person or to only a few people, and yet because of that they still have tremendous influence.
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Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.
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I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing.
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I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
