Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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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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Interview in Las Vegas Weekly (24 June 2010).
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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 no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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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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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
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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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Interviewer: Are there any groups you won’t go after?
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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'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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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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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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Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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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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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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World War II proves there's no God.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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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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Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse. It's because you get older, your responsibilities are different. Now I'm taking care of children instead of being a child. It makes the world look scarier. That happens to everyone.
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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I don't know what's best for other people.