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In June 2019, the internet seemed absolutely obsessed with movie star Keanu Reeves. The actor was riding the wave of praise following the third installment in the John Wick saga, had a surprise cameo in the romantic comedy Always Be My Maybe, and made a meme-worthy appearance at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Amidst this fervor, an old quote ostensibly uttered by Reeves started to recirculate on social media: This is not a genuine quote from Reeves. While we're at it, this quote also wasn't uttered by actors Christopher Walken, Anthony Hopkins, or Richard Gere: In fact, the message doesn't come from any movie star. It originated with a May 2015 post on the Sweatpants and Coffee Facebook page: Nanea Hoffman, founder and CEO of Sweatpants and Coffee, added a message to this post explaining how her words had occasionally been borrowed and attributed to other authors: Hoffman's words can also be found in the concluding paragraph of a longer piece of text that was also falsely attributed to Reeves. That longer quote can be found, among other places, in an April 2016 article published on Medium entitled Here’s Keanu Reeves’ Message On Living Life To The Fullest: Although we have not been able to identify the author of this longer piece of text (minus the concluding paragraph), it wasn't Reeves. We found no articles written by Reeves containing this text or any interviews with him expressing this message. We also know that the final paragraph of this text originated with another author.
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