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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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When I hear Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come', it frustrates me because no matter how hard I try, I can never be that good.
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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
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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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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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