Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
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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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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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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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I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.
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'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
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I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.
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Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
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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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'Morality, Religion And Bullsh*T: An Interview With Penn Jillette' by Ryan Shaffer, at the American Humanist Association (December 2012)
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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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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 vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
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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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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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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.
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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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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.