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The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

Lewis Black

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Lewis Black
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 30
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In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.
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I've always been a social network retard, even before there was a social network. People would say, You want to go to this party and do some networking?
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It's 2003. Why can't I teleport?
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In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.
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I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.
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