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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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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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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'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
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You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.
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Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.
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I know death hath ten thousand several doorsFor men to take their exits.
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Who they are today isn't who they were then.
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The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
