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.
Ralph Steadman
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
Dan Maffei
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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.
Candice Bergen
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
Kat Dennings
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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.
Jack Keane
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava
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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.
Zoe Foster Blake
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
Hannah Simone
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
Garth Brooks
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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.
Octavio Paz
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
Halldor Laxness
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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.
Gary Wolf
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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.
L. E. Modesitt
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Abel Ferrara
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
Rakul Preet Singh
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
Olivia Wilde
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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.
Paracelsus
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I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
S. J. Watson
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
Rachel McAdams
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Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.
Jason Mraz
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I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.
Athol Fugard
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
Penn Jillette