Dan Deacon Quotes
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I love to push myself.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I'm center left, but I think - most things, left on some, center on some, right on very few.
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One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.
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I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all their talk about the last few years-which are no more than a flash compared with eternity-being 'a time of emergency." It's really ridiculous.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
