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The Tea Party claims to want small government.

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
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Film Actor
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Magician
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If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
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Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.
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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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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious it'll make you bugnutty.
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
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So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.
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For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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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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The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
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I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.
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I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
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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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The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
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We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.
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