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You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

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Jon Stewart
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 28
Comedian
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Journalist
Satirist
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Television Actor
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Jonathan Jon Stewart
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
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