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I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life is partly in the strange and unexpected. It is in the constant exclamation 'Who would have thought it?'

Hugh Jackman

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Hugh Jackman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 12
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