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

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Penn Jillette
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: March 5
Actor
Circus Performer
Comedian
Film Actor
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Illusionist
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Magician
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World War II proves there's no God.
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Technology adds nothing to 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've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
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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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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious it'll make you bugnutty.
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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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Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people
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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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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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Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
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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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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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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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Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.
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The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
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There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
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The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
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I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
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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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