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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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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Don't worry, I will come through, and I'm also fine as far as my health goes. I feel well and watch myself.
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I'm in a glass case of emotion
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Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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I just try to play every game like it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
