Penn Jillette Quotes
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I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.
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Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
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A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
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I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
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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.
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I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
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A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
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Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.
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In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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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.
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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 alcohol at all.
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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.
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When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
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You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.
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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.