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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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Freedom means the right to be stupid.
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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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The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
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I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
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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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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
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Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
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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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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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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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Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
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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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You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
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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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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 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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Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
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