Penn Jillette Quotes
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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My favorite over the years is probably 'All I Have to Give.' That's probably my favorite. It's one of the first songs that the five of us were featured on the lead, and I just think it has such a great sonic sound with all the melodies and harmonies. It has a little bit of a mixture of R&B and a pop sound. It's just a really good feel-good song.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
