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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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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.
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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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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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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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But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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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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I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.
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I guess the best thing about marriage is the fact you've got the coolest partner you can imagine by your side for all the things you're going to face in your life. So far, Juliet's been there for me. She's been good for my voice, good for my everything.
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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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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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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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