Penn Jillette Quotes
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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitting in the clothes I like to wear comfortably and living a healthy lifestyle is important to me.
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Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'
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His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.
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The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
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Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
