Penn Jillette Quotes
I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I don't feel closeted.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
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I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.
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Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
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I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.
