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I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
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This is how you answer a door in my neighborhood. WHO IS IT?
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