Penn Jillette Quotes
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I'd love to return to theater.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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People want you to fail.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.
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When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
