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Every poker player is smarter than me.

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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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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To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
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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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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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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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Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.
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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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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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You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.
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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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Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.
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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
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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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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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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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Freedom means the right to be stupid.
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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and 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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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
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