Penn Jillette Quotes
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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You always hear people say, 'I just want to live comfortably.' And I'm like, 'What does that mean?'
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
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Funny is funny, whether you have three cameras or one.
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I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
