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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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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'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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Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.
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It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
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The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious it'll make you bugnutty.
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When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
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I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
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A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
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I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
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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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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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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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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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You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
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Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.
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Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
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