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I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.

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I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

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One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

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

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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.

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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

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The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: March 5th, 1955

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