Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
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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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You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
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I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
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If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food; that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and yours are starving, you need to shut the fuck up!
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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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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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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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Rabbi Daniel Lapin: Here's a really blunt question: would the world be a better or a worse place if a billion Muslims became evangelical Christians tomorrow?
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I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
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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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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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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
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I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
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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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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
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I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.