Penn Jillette Quotes

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

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• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

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• A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

  

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• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

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• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

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• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

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• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

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• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

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• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

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• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  

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• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

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• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

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• I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.

  

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• At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of the morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

  

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• Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • God
  • Pride