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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If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
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I've been in 'Avengers' films, but I don't do a lot of the action parts. There are superheroes in the movie! People would much rather see them fight each other!
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When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art that I had never seen or heard of before. I wrote a lot of bad high-school poetry, just like pretty much everyone did, I think, at some point. For me, the inspiration never really stopped.
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I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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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
