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
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People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.
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I don't question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.
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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.
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I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.
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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
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When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
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When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.
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You have networks for people who bass fish, and another for people who trout fish.
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very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.
I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
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Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.
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My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.
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Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.