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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Illusionist
Jongleur
Magician
Musician
Novelist
Podcaster
Radio Personality
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Massachusetts
Penn Fraser Jillette
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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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The Tea Party claims to want small government.
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The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
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Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
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I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.
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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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When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
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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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I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.
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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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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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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
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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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Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.
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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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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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Thou shalt not take anything on faith
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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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I'm an amazing mama's boy.
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It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.
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