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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
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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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It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.
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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.
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For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
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The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
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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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The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
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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 buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
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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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I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.
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I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.
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Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
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Everyday is an atheist holiday.
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious it'll make you bugnutty.
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'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
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