Penn Jillette Quotes
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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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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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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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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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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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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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 no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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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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Interview in Las Vegas Weekly (24 June 2010).
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Interviewer: Are there any groups you won’t go after?
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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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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 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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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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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
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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?
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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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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.