Dan Deacon Quotes
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.
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My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
