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" My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too. "

Ian Brown

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Down

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Thoughts

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People

Want

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Her

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Big

Side

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Myself

Then

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Stage

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