Penn Jillette Quotes
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
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The only advice I can give you… is to examine who you are… Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know what’s in your heart. Don’t be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.
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I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
