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.
hurt gun people
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
dope gun people
If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.
kids gun rights
The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it's not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up on the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
bullying gun thinking
It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
taken gun people
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.
gun night thinking
Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.
five jazz obsessed talking
The whole thing comes from Provenza and I talking about be-bop jazz about five years ago when I got obsessed with it, and still am,
good magic needs realized time
And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking.
costello elvis five forward saw seeing
Five years ago, I was in New York, and I saw Elvis Costello and I said, 'I look forward to seeing you in Vegas,
allowed hours information manipulate minute
Provenza transcribed every minute of those hours on a computer. That allowed him to manipulate the information in his head, very much like Mozart, I would think,
idiot loving proved
proved that I wasn't an idiot for loving the American people.
good
The thing was, I have a very good job; he has a very good job,
dad might parents western
very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.