Penn Jillette Quotes

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

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• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

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• I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

  

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• I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

  

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• The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

  

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• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

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• I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.

  

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• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

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• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

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• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  

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• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

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• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

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• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

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• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  

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• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

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• With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

  

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• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

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• In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

  

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• The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

  

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• I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

  

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• The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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• Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

  

  Ali Abunimah
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• If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

  

  Penn Jillette
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  • Mother
  • Universe