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Penn Jillette
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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
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Circus Performer
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Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.
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One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an Aha, I finally understand.
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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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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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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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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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Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
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Fear is the politicians dance partner.
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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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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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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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There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.
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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.
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This I believe: I believe there is no God.
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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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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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It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.
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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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