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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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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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I don't talk in ifs.
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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'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?
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We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.
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Whenever you say that homophobia is stupid, you just get called gay.
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If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.
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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.
