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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Illusionist
Jongleur
Magician
Musician
Novelist
Podcaster
Radio Personality
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Massachusetts
Penn Fraser Jillette
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
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When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
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I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
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When I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
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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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Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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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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To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
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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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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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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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Technology adds nothing to art.
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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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Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.
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It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
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When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
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