Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jilletteis an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free-market capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth5 March 1955
CityGreenfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
answer eventually government gun pay pull taxes
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. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
majority mental people vast
The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
disgust good seems
The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
house money
It's the house of a 12-year-old with a lot of money.
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It's an idea we'd had for 15 years. But the technology did not catch up with us until the last couple of years, when we could have enough cameras safely enough underwater that it would look as great as we thought it would.
people treating
It's kind of treating people as adults. Or friends.
jazz musicians versions
It's be-bop, improvisation, ... You get to see different actors do Shakespeare, or jazz musicians do versions of the same song. Why not comedians?
uplifting words
It kind of makes me feel great, because words still have power, ... I just like how uplifting the idea is: Words are powerful.
business care easy nice stuff together values
It's a business partnership. And I think we do better stuff together than we do separately. It's very easy ? we have the same values and morality. ... I think the nice thing is we care about the show more than we care about each other.
fact matter
The fact of the matter is, if you want to be anonymous, you're still better off at the peep show,
created name national soft
'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
harder secret willing work
The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.
coffee discuss drink sit
We would sit and drink decaffeinated coffee and discuss things. Always pretentiously.
composer styles work
Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything.