Penn Jillette Quotes
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
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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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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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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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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
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If you want to build a business, build the people.
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My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
