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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual i
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"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

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USA Flag This quote is written / told by Penn Jillette somewhere between March 5, 1955 and today. He/she was a famous Entertainer from USA. The author also have 20 other quotes.

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