Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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World War II proves there's no God.
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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
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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 like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
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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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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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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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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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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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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.
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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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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
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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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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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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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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 know what's best for other people.
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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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.