Penn Jillette Quotes
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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My mother never watched me train in Romania. She wasn't allowed, it just wasn't done back then. My training was paid for by the government. My parents were not at the Olympics with me, either. I never expected them to be.
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There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of Democratic mythology, ghostwritten for an ambitious young Massachusetts Senator who never did a thing for himself if he could pay to have it done by others.
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I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
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You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.
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I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
