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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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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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Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.
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