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Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

Penn Jillette

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
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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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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
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We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.
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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 I was 15, 16, 17 years old, I spent five hours a day juggling, and I probably spent six hours a day seriously listening to music. And if I were 16 now, I would put that time into playing video games.
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So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.
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Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
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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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You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!
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Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.
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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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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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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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There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.
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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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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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If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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Every poker player is smarter than me.
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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
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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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