Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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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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If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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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 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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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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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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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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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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Interview in Las Vegas Weekly (24 June 2010).
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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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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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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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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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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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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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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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A guy called up, and in his lead, he said, 'We've talked before. I used to be with US but now I'm for SELF.' And I was like, 'I guess we know everything now, don't we?' … I kind of laughed and I went, 'I guess a lot of people are like that.' And he paused and went, 'Uhhh… what?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing.'
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Interviewer: Are there any groups you won’t go after?
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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.