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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I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
