Penn Jillette Quotes

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Penn Jillette

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• The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

  

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• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

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• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

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• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

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• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

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• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

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• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
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• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
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• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

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• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
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  • Thought

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

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  • Thought
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  • Surprise

• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

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  • Vision
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• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

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  • Men
  • Job
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• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  

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  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Price

• A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.

  

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  • Career
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  • Worldview

• I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

  

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• The simple things in life make me very happy.

  

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• Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

  

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• Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.

  

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• Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

  

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  • Time
  • Love
  • Use

• Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Time
  • Good