Penn Jillette Quotes
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
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In our day we went from - we went into saloons. We couldn't cross over like you can today, get a television series and all of a sudden you're a major movie star, you know.
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When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have any criminal motives. Not what is usually understood by "criminal motives." He wanted to go along with the rest. He wanted to say "we," and going-along-with-the-rest and wanting-to-say-we like this were quite enough to make the greatest of all crimes possible. The Hitlers, after all, really aren't the ones who are typical in this kind of situation--they'd be powerless without the support of others.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.
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Trump, who never showed the slightest glimpse of humility.
