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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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New York City
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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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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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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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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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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 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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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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I think you can only get closer to satisfaction but you never fully arrive.
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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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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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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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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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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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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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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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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'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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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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A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
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