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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

Julian Casablancas

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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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Extension
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Evolve
Animal
Needs
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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.
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I'm really grateful. But I never had the rock star dream. I thought it would be cool to be a modern-day composer.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?
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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.
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I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.
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I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
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The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.
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I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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