Penn Jillette Quotes
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
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I loved the world of imagination.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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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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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
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It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
