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You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.
Paula Yates
You
Ladder
Think
Hooks
Inside
Some
About
Small
Putting
House
Ceiling
Might
Rope
Your
Swing
When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.
Penn Jillette
You
People
Innocent
Everybody
Innocent People
More
Like
Know
Look
Talk
Talking
Greater
Because
Than
American
Died
Want
After
Who
Even
Actual
Number
Numbers
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
Penn Jillette
Me
You
People
Black
Black And White
White
Objects
Always
Juggling
Very
Manipulating
Straightforward
Appealed
When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
Penn Jillette
Buy
Good
Money
Giving
Windows
Something
Only
Good Thing
Which
Really
Bill
Bill Gates
Useful
Thing
Buying
Gates
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
Penn Jillette
Hope
Religion
Fear
Reward
Punishment
Threats
Morality
Morally
Because
Behaving
Bribery
Humans
Need
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Penn Jillette
Kidding
Teller
More
Performing
Renaissance
Around
Real
Festivals
Than
Did
Worked
Street
Actually
Philadelphia
I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
Penn Jillette
Life
My Life
Alcohol
Drink
Never
Had
Any
I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
Penn Jillette
Mind
Believe
Universe
Way
About
Strongly
Only
Share
Talking
Am
Huge
Very
Huge Fan
Fan
Your
Speaking
Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
Penn Jillette
Comedy
Care
Free
Market
Free Market
Taken
Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.
Penn Jillette
Three
TV
Would
Only
Networks
Never
Had
Poker
Gotten
Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
Penn Jillette
You
Feeling
Push-Ups
Poker
Sport
As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.
Penn Jillette
Me
Joy
Made
Every
Out
Fact
Jump
Much
Second
Every Second
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.
Penn Jillette
Dark
Bathtub
Books
Out
Lights
Like
Read
Go
Turn
Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
Penn Jillette
Teller
Penn
About
Global
Know
Global Warming
Jack
Warming
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.
Penn Jillette
World
Stupid
Corporate
Corporate World
Because
Hindsight
Does
Always
Surprised
Very
Often
Things
The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
Penn Jillette
Time
Myself
Rights
First
Our
Carlin
Later
Out
Exact
Civil
Civil Rights
Both
Head
First Thing
Said
Go
George
George Carlin
Same
The First Thing
Same Time
Notes
Comparing
Found
Thing
I'm an amazing mama's boy.
Penn Jillette
Amazing
Boy
Mama
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.
Penn Jillette
You
Culture
Stay
Someone
He
Puts
Houdini
Like
Ideas
Intellectual
Get
Famous
Whereas
Then
Really
Hard
Who
Works
Actual
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.
Penn Jillette
You
Visceral
Someone
Reaction
Revelation
Intellectual
Celebration
Being
Where
Psycho
Then
Moment
Watching
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
Work
Those
Tricks
Magic
Performing
Make
Get
Again
Separate
Skills
Use
Actual
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.
Penn Jillette
Success
Time
Together
People
Goals
Year
Living
Earn
Our
Valley
Teller
Exactly
Exactly What
Had
Because
Within
Got
Doing
Goal
Achieved
Wanted
Which
Mean
Asparagus
Many
By The Time
In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
Penn Jillette
Life
Alcohol
Around
Private
Private Life
Any
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
Penn Jillette
You
Dinner
Wine
Alcohol
Out
Around
Leave
Go
Order
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
Penn Jillette
You
Legal
Free
Believe
Everything
Libertarian
Also
Want
Hardcore
Right
Association
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.
Penn Jillette
You
People
Country
Big
Think
Please
Big Fan
Huge
Fan
Successful
Even
Million
Million People
Phenomenally
Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
Time
You
Reality
Old
Before
Enough
Between
Know
Read
Learned
Course
Real
Any
Difference
Story
Old Enough
Damage
By The Time
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