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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
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Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
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If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.
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I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
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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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Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
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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'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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Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.
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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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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
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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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You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
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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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If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
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Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
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