Penn Jillette Quotes
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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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 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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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
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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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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 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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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'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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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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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 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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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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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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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
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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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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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Interviewer: Are there any groups you won’t go after?
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.