Penn Jillette Quotes
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
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The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
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We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.
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My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
