Penn Jillette Quotes
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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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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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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 was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.
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I love tea.
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How can the United States preserve its financial and security leadership role when it conducts itself with such ineptitude and such disregard for the consequences for the world?
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Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.
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When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'm noticing and aware of and thinking about, because when you're doing a series, you think about more than just jokes... you know, when you're doing a comedy, you think about what's going to reflect people's experiences, in a way.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
