Penn Jillette Quotes
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.
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It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.
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The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
