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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.

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody.
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When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
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If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke.
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This I believe: I believe there is no God.
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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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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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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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If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
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The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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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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In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
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The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
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Juggling is very, very straightforward very, very black and white you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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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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We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.
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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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