Penn Jillette Quotes
You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
Quotes to Explore
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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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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
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I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.
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Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.
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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
