Penn Jillette Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.
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I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
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You don't need to hire a dog therapist, you just need to wake up at 7 am and open the fucking door!
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You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it’s a plant, not a reason for living. Controlled by a plant, how hilarious. A plant! A fucking plant!
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Public discourse is sometimes hotter and more negative than it should be, which can, in my opinion, trigger someone who is less than stable.
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...thousands of little children occupy sleeping quarters with parents and boarders whose every act is visible to all. Morality indeed! Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.
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I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.
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Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before.
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Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that`s been to ignore or to rally around. And that`s something that systematically we are going to need to break this blue wall of silence if we`re ever going to dramatically change and end the culture of police violence.
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I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
