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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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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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
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One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up.
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I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day; yes, I'm a-goin for to tell you all, that I'm a plebian! I glory in it; I am a plebian! The people - yes, the people of the United States have made me what I am; and I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day - yes, to-day, in this place - that the people are everything.
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A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.
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I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.
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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.
