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Penn Jillette


American
March 5, 1955
Entertainer
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.


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Technology adds nothing to art.


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I'm very happy being big and effeminate.


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Tags: Very Being Big
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.


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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.


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I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.


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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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'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.


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Tags: Good Much Got
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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.


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Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
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I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
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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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'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
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It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
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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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If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
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Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.
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I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
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