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Penn Jillette
American
Entertainer
Born:
Mar 5
,
1955
Believe
Good
Me
People
Think
You
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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. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
Penn Jillette
Government
You
Will
Gun
Pay
Everything
Someone
Voluntarily
Court
Answer
Does
Go
Up
Done
Just
Want
Taxes
Your
Warrant
Show
Eventually
Pull
If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
Penn Jillette
You
Stuff
Like
Liking
Go
Up
Chance
Chances
I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.
Penn Jillette
Good
Suffering
People
Poverty
Own
Pain
Bootstraps
Because
Up
Want
Them
Themselves
Us
Help
Who
Suffer
Pull
For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.
Penn Jillette
Reality
Better
Worse
Variety
Reality Shows
Century
Show
Shows
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
Penn Jillette
Beautiful
Ugly
Important
Everybody
Apps
Gimmick
Magic
About
Important Thing
iPhone
Really
Thing
Things
Designing
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people.
Penn Jillette
People
Obama
More
Only
More People
Only Difference
Between
Difference
Bush
All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
Penn Jillette
Magician
David
Good-Looking
Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.
Penn Jillette
Day
Every Day
Internet
Every
Trees
Earth
Melting
Destroying
TV
Something
Bears
Rivers
Polar
Drowning
Message
Doing
Dying
Ice
Newspapers
Us
Caps
We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
Penn Jillette
Government
Business
President
Show
Show Business
Who
Need
If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
Penn Jillette
Stars
Dancing
Dancing With The Stars
Way
Embarrassment
Through
Stumbled
Were
Trying
Avoid
Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.
Penn Jillette
Work
Art
Good
Relationship
You
Business
Respect
Building
Affection
Way
Projects
Out
Run
Running
Date
Idea
Like
Also
Opposed
Go
Friends
Very
Going
Hanging
Really
Your
Professional
Good Idea
Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.
Penn Jillette
People
Wind
Some People
Energy
Think
Everybody
Way
Some
Clean
Safe
Balances
Always
Go
Wants
Coal
Nuclear
I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.
Penn Jillette
Will
Rules
Horrible
General
Small
Exceptions
Stick
Catholics
Up
Very
Forever
Play
Christians
Number
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.
Penn Jillette
Believe
Stuff
Boy
Go
Question
Lot
Very
Want
Against
Much
Really
Things
You should think about the world and feel about your heart.
Penn Jillette
You
Heart
World
Think
About
Feel
Should
Your
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
Penn Jillette
People
Better
Word
Other
More
Consume
Contact
Performers
Than
Any
Lack
Product
Who
I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
Penn Jillette
Me
Comedy
Voice
Fired
Wrote
Because
Been
Situational
Script
Specifically
I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
Penn Jillette
Better
Everyone
Liberals
Along
Than
Get
Want
Much
Who
Fundamentalist
Christians
I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.
Penn Jillette
Family
Me
Try
Care
Promises
Stupid
President
Take
Take Care
May
Want
Anyone
Who
Grown-Up
Chance
In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.
Penn Jillette
Good
Waiting
People
Everything
Tell
Kind
Moral
Find
Seem
Voices
Overlap
Hear
Them
Really
Christians
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
Penn Jillette
Future
Art
Religion
Happy
Think
Other
Inspired
Pieces
Tickled
Tiny
Little
Really
Things
Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
Penn Jillette
Government
Good
Fear
Good Person
No Fear
Someone
Person
Whatsoever
Should
Who
Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
Penn Jillette
Smart
Action
Feel
Fellow
Makes
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
Penn Jillette
Knowledge
Trust
Sense
Feel
Makes
Real
Prove
Opposite
Real Knowledge
Actions
I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.
Penn Jillette
Business
Eyes
People
Wealth
Feedback
Think
Enough
Enough People
Danger
Possible
One Of The Things
Atmosphere
About
More
He
Him
Trump
Than
Get
Donald
Donald Trump
Rolling
Where
Interesting
Show
Show Business
Lives
Things
Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.
Penn Jillette
Girl
White
He
Knows
Precisely
Going
Suburban
Jay-Z
Who
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