Penn Jillette Quotes
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
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I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
