Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
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I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
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Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.
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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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'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
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I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
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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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We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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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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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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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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If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.
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It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
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I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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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 think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
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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 don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.