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
atheist sex believe
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
atheist holiday everyday
Everyday is an atheist holiday.
hate proselytizing everlasting-life
How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?
trying agendas
When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.
messages mediums
The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
feelings
Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.
world pay bills
That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.
feelings strongest
One of the strongest feelings you can get in life--one of the most rewarding feelings--is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."
punishment rewards morality
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.
taken care comedy
Comedy is taken care of by a free market.
rights firsts notes
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.
libertarian sound republican
You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
mysterious-ways way mysterious
God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways
atheist smart brave
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.