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I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them.
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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