Penn Jillette Quotes
My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.
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Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
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In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.
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So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
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My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.
