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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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.
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I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
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My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.
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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.
