Penn Jillette Quotes
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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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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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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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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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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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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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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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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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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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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
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Interview in Las Vegas Weekly (24 June 2010).
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America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to reach out to the godless than to someone from another sect.
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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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I don't know what's best for other people.
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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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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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I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.
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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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The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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Rabbi Daniel Lapin: Here's a really blunt question: would the world be a better or a worse place if a billion Muslims became evangelical Christians tomorrow?