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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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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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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You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.
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If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.
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Scottish men of a certain age have a black response to almost everything as a measure of how sophisticated they are. I have a very long fuse that eventually explodes after building up a nice head of steam, although it's only happened three times - usually at work when someone takes me for granted.
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Just because we have different views, that doesn't mean that we lack principles.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
