Penn Jillette Quotes
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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To be is to do.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the deep end pretty quick.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
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I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.
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Tanglewood summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was a place where gods strode the earth.
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I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.
