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I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Vin Diesel

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Vin Diesel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 18
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