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Freedom means the right to be stupid.

Penn Jillette

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
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Film Actor
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Illusionist
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Magician
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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 was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
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I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
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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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'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.
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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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One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.
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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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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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When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.
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Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
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Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
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Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
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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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Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.
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