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" I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard. "

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" Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund. "

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" I've spent so much time with my dad traveling and seeing the ground-level change that we've been able to make through philanthropy and trip over trip, time over time, country over country, home after home we've been invited into, given tea, given food that people didn't have to give us, I mean all of these things. "

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