Penn Jillette Quotes
I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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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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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.
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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
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The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
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I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
