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It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

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Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

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There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

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'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

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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.

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I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

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If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

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I'm an amazing mama's boy.

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I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: March 5th, 1955

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