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Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope. (Penn Jillette)
Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president. View quote
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When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games. View quote
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The Tea Party claims to want small government. View quote
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Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly. View quote
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats. View quote
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Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral. View quote
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech. View quote
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We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business. View quote
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom. View quote
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If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.' (Penn Jillette)
Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming. View quote
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I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules. View quote
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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something. View quote
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Mentally ill people come from all belief systems. View quote
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Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart. View quote
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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense. View quote
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I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other. View quote
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I'm an amazing mama's boy. View quote
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Every poker player is smarter than me. View quote
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You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. (Penn Jillette)
The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things. View quote
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My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer. View quote
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Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great. View quote
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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness. View quote
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