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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
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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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'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
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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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We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.
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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
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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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Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.
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Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
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I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.
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Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.
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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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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.
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I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
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There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
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I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didn’t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.
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