Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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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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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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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 never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
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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.
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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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When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
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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'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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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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That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its 'hit' and you know more about our species' diversity.
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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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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
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Interview in Las Vegas Weekly (24 June 2010).
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Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism.
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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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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.
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The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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Interviewer: Are there any groups you won’t go after?