Penn Jillette Quotes
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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
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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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Interviewer: Are there any groups you won’t go after?
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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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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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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.
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Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism.
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I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.
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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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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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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
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There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
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No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.
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Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.