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I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

— Leo Kottke

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

— Daniel Bruhl

When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.

— Jack Ma

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

— Ryan White

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

— Prince William

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

— Michael Cera

And my little sister died when she was 16.

— Jeremy London

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

— Henny Youngman

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

— Ryan Lochte

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.

— Robert Webb

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

— Jeremy Collier