Alex Warren's TIME100 Next Gala Toast

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Alex Warren opened his toast by sharing a story: when he was 7 years old, he climbed a tall tree and shouted down to his father, who was at the bottom and was prepared to catch him: “What if I fall?” “Without hesitation, he responds, ‘What if you fly?’” Warren recalled. “That was my dad. He was always so quick to instill hope and question what you thought was impossible. My dad was a superhero, and I wanted to impress him. I performed talent shows in our living room, singing my heart out. No matter what lyrics I sang, wrong strings I would play, you couldn’t hear them over the cheers of a…

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