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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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills....

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

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

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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

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I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that...

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I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million...