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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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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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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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I over-think stuff a lot.
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Birth is a beautiful thing.
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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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When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
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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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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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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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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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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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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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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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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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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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Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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