"You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things."

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Source : "The Situation with Tucker Carlson", www.nbcnews.com. August 16, 2005.

Penn Jillette

#Stupid Quotes #Self Quotes #Self Destructive Quotes

“The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.”
“We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.”
“Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.”
“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”
“Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories... money, health or relationships.”
“Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The opportunity to live and experience life inspires me. Watching others not take it for granted inspires me. Using time to create something timeless through creativity and proactivity inspires me.”
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”

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