Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette
Penn Fraser Jilletteis an American magician, juggler, comedian, musician, inventor, actor, and best-selling author known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller. He is also known for his advocacy of atheism, scientific skepticism, libertarianism and free-market capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth5 March 1955
CityGreenfield, MA
CountryUnited States of America
messages mediums
The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
downside
Well, see, there's a downside to that, too,
good help people pull suffer themselves
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.
reading
I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
artistic expression sort statement unpleasant
For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true.
hefner love
Hefner does get blindsided, and I love that,
heard
I have never heard her say 'hell' or 'damn,' ... She's not coming.
I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.
believe grew suppose
I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
best
I don't know what's best for other people.
dad might parents western
very puritanical parents in western Massachusetts. If my dad stubbed his toe, you might get 'hell' out of him.
I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash.
belief cannot evidence faith love religion universal
Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.
government money people seem stuff themselves
People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.