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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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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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I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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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 am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
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You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
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The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.
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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
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L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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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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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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