Penn Jillette Quotes
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The truth sustains me.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.
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The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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'Nearly eleven o'clock,' said Pooh happily. 'You're just in time for a little smackerel of something.'
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From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
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From the streets of Los Angeles to the public schools of the Bronx, there is no state of the Union where Latinos are not becoming local leaders and responsible politicians.
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History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
