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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

Alan Alda

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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
Actor
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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