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One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Val Kilmer

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Val Kilmer
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 31
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LA
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Val Edward Kilmer
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I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.
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Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
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Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.
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