Penn Jillette Quotes
I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy - you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
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I wrote to one of my doctors: I could never have guessed what would get me through this past year - a woodland snail and its offspring; I honestly don't think I would have made it otherwise. Watching another creature go about its life...somehow gave me, the watcher, purpose too. If life mattered to the snail and the snail mattered to me, it meant something in my life mattered, so I kept on...
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Religion was best understood when least talked of.
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I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
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Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
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I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy - you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do
