Darin Strauss Quotes
Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.
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Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
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I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.
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You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.
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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.
