Penn Jillette Quotes
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Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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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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It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. … God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.
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My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
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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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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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'Morality, Religion And Bullsh*T: An Interview With Penn Jillette' by Ryan Shaffer, at the American Humanist Association (December 2012)
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I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.
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I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.
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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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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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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
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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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Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.
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From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.
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I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
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'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
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Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
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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.