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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

Jimmy Page

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Jimmy Page
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 9
Composer
Guitarist
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James Patrick Page
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If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.
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