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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And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.
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I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)
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They tried to sell the movie by its story. All the TV spots and trailers were story-driven, because many people still think musicals don't have serious plots.
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My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
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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.
