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My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

Anthony Kiedis

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Anthony Kiedis
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 1
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