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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.
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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 didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
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Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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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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Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
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Thou shalt not take anything on faith
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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
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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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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
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My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
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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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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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