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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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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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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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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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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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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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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Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
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We need to understand where our issues and challenges are and confront them head on. Because you can fix anything if you know there's a problem.
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If we are to celebrate the giants in Australian public life, then Robert Garran must be among them. A lawyer and passionate advocate of Federation, Garran was one of several hands that drafted our constitution.
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There is no closer bond than the one that gratefulness celebrates, the bond between giver and thanksgiver. Everything is a gift. Grateful living is a celebration of the universal give-and-take of life, a limitless yes to belonging. Can our world survive without gratefulness? Whatever the answer, one thing is certain: to say an unconditional yes to the mutual belonging of all beings will make this a more joyful world. This is the reason why Yes is my favorite synonym for God.
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
