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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The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
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There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
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The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
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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.
