Penn Jillette Quotes
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night.
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If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?
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I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
