Penn Jillette Quotes
I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
Penn Jillette
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.'
Karin Slaughter
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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.
Yuichiro Miura
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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.
Ira Sachs
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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.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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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.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
Maimonides
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I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.
Jack Vance
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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!
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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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!
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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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.
Hillary Clinton
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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.
Margaret Sanger
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Things can end badly, as they sometimes do in life. But if they do, then we know that something is wrong, just as we know it when a piece of music doesn’t resolve itself properly at the end. We know that. We just do. And so we prefer harmony.
Alexander McCall Smith
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
Hippocrates
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I have had no true friends, only lovers.
Pablo Picasso
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Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.
Margaret Mitchell
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When you're shopping you forget about eating!
Jennifer Hudson
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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