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Luck is probability taken personally. (Penn Jillette)
Better to be uneducated than educated by your government. View quote
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Read everything and be kind. View quote
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For 50 million years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and I believe we will really fast. I also believe it will be wicked ugly while we're adjusting. View quote
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Trump, who never showed the slightest glimpse of humility. View quote
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I have nothing good to say about Donald Trump as president. View quote
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Atheism is the only real hope against terrorism. View quote
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Atheists are also morally obligated to tell the truth as we see it. We should preach and proselytize too. We need to help believers. Someone who believes in god is wasting big parts of his or her life, holding back science and love, and giving "moral" support to dangerous extremists. If you believe something, you must share it; it's one of the ways we all learn about truth. View quote
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I have written and spoken and joked with friends the meanest, cruelest, most hateful things that could ever been said by me, have been said about the Clintons. I loathe them. I disagree with Hillary Clinton on just about everything there is to disagree with a person about. If it comes down to Trump and Hillary, I will put a Hillary Clinton sticker on my fucking car. View quote
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Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby. View quote
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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. (Penn Jillette)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful. View quote
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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life. View quote
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all. View quote
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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. View quote
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message. View quote
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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known. (Penn Jillette)
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals. View quote
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol. View quote
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The fact is that violence gives you a rush. View quote
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We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food; that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and your family are starving, you need to shut the fuck up! View quote
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