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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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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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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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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It's important to go out on the pitch and make a fantastic performance.
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My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.
