"The skills that we have are the actual……" — Penn Jillette
"The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again."
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227 Quotes by Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette has 227 quotes on this site.
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I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The…
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and…
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People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get…
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This I believe: I believe there is no God.
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I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you…
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How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or…
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If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody…
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If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell—or not getting eternal life…
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How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?
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The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people,
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The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
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More Actual Quotes
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
— Dennis Banks
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
— Jeff Bezos
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
— Ben Affleck
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
— Alton Brown
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