Penn Jillette Quotes
One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
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Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
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I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
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One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.
