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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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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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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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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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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If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.
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Baseball isn't a life-and-death matter, but the Red Sox are.
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My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.
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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.
