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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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
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And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young.
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Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.
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I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.
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Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.
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'Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
