Penn Jillette Quotes
When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe.
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I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.
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To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
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People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.
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There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
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When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
