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
government money people seem stuff themselves
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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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 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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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.
people stuff freak
When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.
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.
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Five years ago, I was in New York, and I saw Elvis Costello and I said, 'I look forward to seeing you in Vegas,
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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,
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proved that I wasn't an idiot for loving the American people.
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The thing was, I have a very good job; he has a very good job,
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very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.