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We celebrities are desperate pigs.

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Illusionist
Jongleur
Magician
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Novelist
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Radio Personality
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Massachusetts
Penn Fraser Jillette
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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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If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
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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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The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.
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The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.
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You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
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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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A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
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I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
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Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.
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I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.
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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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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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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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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.
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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
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