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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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
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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.
