Penn Jillette Quotes
The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.
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As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.
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There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.
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The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
