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What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.
Lewis Black
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Lewis Black
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 30
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Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.
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