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The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

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Jerry Seinfeld
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 29
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