Dan Deacon Quotes
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Isolationism is over.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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Life wasn't like that before, and I couldn't previously accept that things might not work out the way I wanted.
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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
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You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
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The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
