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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
Podcaster
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Massachusetts
Penn Fraser Jillette
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World War II proves there's no God.
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
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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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Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
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My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.
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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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Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
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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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For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
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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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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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I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
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Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
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That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its hit and you know more about our species' diversity.
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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
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