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I don't know what's best for other people.
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The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
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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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There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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Interviewer: Are there any groups you won’t go after?
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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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 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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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.
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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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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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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
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I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
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The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
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America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.
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I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.
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