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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
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Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
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You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
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We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.
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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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If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
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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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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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