Penn Jillette Quotes
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
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You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know?
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
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I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
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My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
