Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
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The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
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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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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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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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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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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'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
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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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As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.
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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
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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.
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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
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I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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The Glenn Beck Program, April 12, 2013. Edited, including omission of some non-germane remarks. YouTube
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I don't know what's best for other people.
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The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'