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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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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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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The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
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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 like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
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'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
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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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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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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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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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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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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
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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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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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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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World War II proves there's no God.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.