"I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didnâ€™t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that."

-- Penn Jillette

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere.”
“There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.”
“Everybody should read fictionâ€¦ I donâ€™t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that wonâ€™t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And itâ€™s not just that mechanics and plumbers donâ€™t read literary fiction, itâ€™s that doctors and lawyers donâ€™t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesnâ€™t trust art.”
“When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.”
“The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.”
“[Louis] Brandeis is writing directly to us. His clear voice comes through a century and he's speaking to us and he's galvanizing us and he's persuading us. And that's why I love to read the prose.”

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“And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, Iâ€™d found out long ago that I couldnâ€™t stay mad at a man wearing nothing but underwear. They looked so charmingly vulnerable.”
“I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.”

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