Penn Jillette Quotes
I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
Quotes to Explore
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
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I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
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Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.
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The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.
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I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'
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We must do right and risk the consequences.
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I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
