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Laughter is a basic human need, along with love, and food, and an HBO subscription.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech (2018)

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I grew up here in Washington, D.C., back during the quaint, old-fashioned "Rule of Law" period.

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