Dan Deacon Quotes
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I was an expert horseman.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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It's much easier to teach writing, because people are less shy about writing. If they're in a group, nobody can see what they're writing. When you're drawing, people get a little more nervous.
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In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.
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The main stuff I like is from the late '60s to the early '90s. That's the stuff I love. It's the James Cameron's and the Paul Verhoven stuff. I guess when I was younger, 'Star Wars' had an influence.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
