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 think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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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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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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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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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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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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I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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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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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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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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To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.
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In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
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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.
