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Technology is run by sex, because it's very important to people, both technology and sex.

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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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Penn Fraser Jillette
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The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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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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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
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The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.
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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
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Technology adds nothing to art.
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
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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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You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.
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I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
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A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age.
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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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There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.
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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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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
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