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When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.

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Ed Begley, Jr.
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 16
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