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On 6 March 2016, the web site Higher Perspectives attributed the following quote to actor Keanu Reeves: The item was suspiciously sourced not to an interview, but to a fan page on Facebook for Reeves. Celebrity fan pages notoriously spread misattributed quotes for famous people in order to accrue social media engagement. The attribution wasn't unique to that page, however, as a captioned video published to YouTube in September 2015 made the same claim: However, an unaltered version of the video depicted Reeves discussing an art exhibit: Before the quote was attributed to Reeves, it appeared elsewhere on the internet and was attributed to its original poster at that time, not Reeves. From there, the item became popular on Arabic-language and Islam-related pages and groups: We were ultimately unable to turn up any interviews, footage, or other media in which Reeves uttered the quote — or anything resembling it. The comments largely circulated on Arabic-language web sites until they were, for whatever reason, attributed to Reeves. However, there's no evidence the words are his, nor do they resemble anything he's said in the past.
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