Penn Jillette Quotes
Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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You keep learning all the time.
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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 never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.
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I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.
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In place of the bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, shall we have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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The untruth of the accusation, which they all knew well, only served to reinforce it ... By the logic of the high-rise those most innocent of any offence became the most guilty.
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There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.
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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
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We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.
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Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.
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In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.
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When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.
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Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
