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Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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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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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, 'Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not?' But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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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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Freedom means the right to be stupid.
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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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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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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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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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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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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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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.
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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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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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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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