Penn Jillette Quotes
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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
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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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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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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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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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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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This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
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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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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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Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine.
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I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
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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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I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
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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 I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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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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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
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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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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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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.