Penn Jillette Quotes
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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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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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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God does arithmetic.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.
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Early in your career, you feel like there is a formula, a path you have to take. You have to do this movie because this person directed it and you have to be associated with these people. In some ways, I have thrown that out.
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I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.
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The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
