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" Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? "
Steven Wright
Washington
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" I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now. "
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