Penn Jillette Quotes
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I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
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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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I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
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Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
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World War II proves there's no God.
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Interview in Las Vegas Weekly (24 June 2010).
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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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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
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People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.
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Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
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Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
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I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.
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When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
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For 50 million years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we’re adjusting.
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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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The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
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Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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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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Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.