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Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Mary Louise Streep
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