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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
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Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.
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One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.
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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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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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Fear is the politicians dance partner.
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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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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
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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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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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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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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
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In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
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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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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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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'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
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