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Penn Jillette Biography

Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, filmmaker, television personality and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. The duo have been featured in numerous stage and television shows such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and Penn & Teller: Bullshit, and are currently headlining in Las Vegas at The Rio. Jillette serves as the act's orator and raconteur.

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We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

Tests, Strict, Humans, Test, Friends, Love

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

Atheism, Hobbies, Stamps, Hobby, Religion

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.

Magic, Performing, Skills, Tricks, Use

If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

Advocates, Atheist, Character, Give, Giving, Prejudice

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars. '

Avoid, Dancing, Stars, Stumbled, Trying

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.

Gets, Gun, Night, Pointed, Shot, Thinking

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people

Away, Bad, Government, People, Rights

Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

Bring, Cheerios, Kids, Memories, Sugar, Thinking

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

Conquer, Eating, Fears, Fire, Learn

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it's getting worse.

People, Things, Think, Thinking, True, Two

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians. ' And my answer is always, 'I hope so. '

Atheist, Attack, Christian, Christians, Outspoken, People

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

Destroy, Faith, Hate, Love, Love And Respect, People

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Believing, Forgiveness, God, Good, Kindness, Motivational

From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL. ' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

Couple, Living, New York, Right, Squares, Theaters

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

Eight, Hand, Hands, Hours, Juggler, Mean

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

Blow, Close, Done, Magic, Stuff

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.

Foolish, Gun, People, Say, Taken, Warrant

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.

Achieved, Congratulations, Goal, Mean, Teller, Years

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.

Actual, Culture, Ideas, Intellectual, Like

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

Girl, Knows, Precisely, Suburban, White, Years

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