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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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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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Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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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 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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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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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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.
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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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