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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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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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
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And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.
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Trump, who never showed the slightest glimpse of humility.
