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You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!

David LaChapelle

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David LaChapelle
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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