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 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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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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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
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The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!
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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?
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People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
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I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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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.
