Penn Jillette Quotes
I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
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My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.
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I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Without a song, each day would be a century.
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I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.
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YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed - and better spelled - via a simple thumbs-up or down.
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Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
