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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.'

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
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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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Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people
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My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
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