Penn Jillette Quotes
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
Quotes to Explore
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
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As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
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People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.
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I'm not a big pet fan. I remember the school used to have a hamster, and you used to take it home for a week at a time. I did that. I probably got bored of it within a day.
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
