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A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

Penn Jillette

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.
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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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In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.
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If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.
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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
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I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.
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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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