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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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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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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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
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I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.
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There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.
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I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.
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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.
