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I think a hero is someone who, if abroad or traveling, they go to the GOOP website to see what shops to go to, what restaurants to eat at, what clothes to buy, and they do that not fearlessly but in spite of their fear.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Robert Downey, Jr.
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 4
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