Penn Jillette Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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From flying in the cockpit of an A-10 to chairing hearings on Capitol Hill, I've learned that each of us will face struggles as we pursue our goals.
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I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good, and I think she's a good singer.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'
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It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
