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I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

Jack Johnson

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Jack Johnson
Age: 68 †
Born: 1878
Born: March 31
Died: 1946
Died: June 10
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Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. When you find the things that you love the most and you want to give those away, that's love. It's when you want somebody to be happier than yourself, but then once you make them happy, it makes you happier.
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Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.
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Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.
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