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A father and two sons run Adelphia. Its a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion.

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"A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'"

- Lewis Black

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This quote is written / told by Lewis Black somewhere between August 30, 1948 and today. He/she was a famous Comedian from USA. The author also have 8 other quotes.

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