Penn Jillette Quotes
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I write in a small office at home.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.
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I am sure that some day the Czechs will see that what we did was to save them for a happier future. And I sincerely believe that what we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos.
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Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
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O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
