Gavin Rossdale
British musician
The fact that I am still making music.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That people listen to my voice when I speak.
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Kyoto, when Tony Blair gave me the opportunity to start the first legislative framework for climate change.
A successful marriage, my third.
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Over the last eight years I have been privileged to see 250,000 schoolkids across the world and tell them my story – a kid with dyslexia from a broken home becoming a space scientist – and inspire them to do something they dream about.
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