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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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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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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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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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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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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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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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view.
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I've always said I would serve where Montanans feel I could be the most effective.
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People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
