Darin Strauss Quotes
Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
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I'm not saying that I'm on some crusade to change people's minds. I'm just doing what I do. I'm a comedian, I'm trying to be funny... I think when they see a comedy show with an Iranian and an Egyptian and two Palestinians, I think they go, 'Oh wow, these guys are just like us.'
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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As quoted in Seeds of Peace : A Catalogue of Quotations (1986) by Jeanne Larson, Madge Micheels-Cyrus, p. 244
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Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
