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Quotes by Penn Jillette

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

Im not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.

We need a president who realizes that theres no government business in show business.

Cars mean nothing to me. Im not a car guy.

My hair is way, way long. Ive hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. Ive ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, Id never seen a rock and roll show, Id never seen a comic or a show.

Ive never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

Im a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

This is going to sound horrible, but I dont even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know its more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than Ill ever need.

“There is no god, and thats the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.”