Penn Jillette Quotes
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.
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I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground-I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.
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Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.
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there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
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Maybe I have to be more aggressive.
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One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.
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Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
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The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
