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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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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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A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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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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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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In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
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Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.
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You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
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When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.
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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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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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Having a Hummer is stupid. It's stupid to waste that much gas. It's stupid to waste that much money on gas. It's stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.
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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 only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
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