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Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.
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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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In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.
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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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I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
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Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.
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The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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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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My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
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Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
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