Penn Jillette Quotes

• You can’t stop insane people from doing insane things by passing insane laws.

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• God works in mysterious, inefficient and breathtakingly cruel ways.

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• Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.

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• You don’t have to be brave or a saint. A martyr. Or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

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• If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most.

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• Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

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• Once you’ve condoned faith in general, you’ve condoned any crazy shit done because of faith.

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• The president should have so little power that it doesn’t matter who they are… Instead of having so much power that it doesn’t matter who they are.

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• Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

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• When you’re watching Psycho, there’ s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you’re not, and that’s where the celebration comes in.

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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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  Tags in People, Want

• We aren’t people who believe that just because we’re performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

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• The skills that we have are the actual magic skills – not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don’t get to use again.

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• The only place we were really told to tone it down – where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn’t – was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

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• The medium is not the message – the message is the message.

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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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• The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

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• Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing – actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

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• One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we’re in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

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  Tags in Reason, Reality

• It wasn’t success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together – within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people’s goal.

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Penn Jillette (28)

Birth:	23rd July, 1918
Death:	14th August, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player, Broadcaster

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