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Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.
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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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Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.
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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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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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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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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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Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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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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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
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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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The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
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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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Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
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