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If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

Johnny Carson

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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
Actor
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Journalist
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Military Officer
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Television Presenter
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Corning
Iowa
John William Carson
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