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I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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Yes, of course. Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? Millions of stars, and we're supposed to be the only living creatures? No, there are many things out there, we just don't know.
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