Dan Deacon Quotes
When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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И если умирает человек,с ним умирает первый его снег,и первый поцелуй, и первый бой...
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Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
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Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
