Daron Malakian Quotes
Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Flash is about freedom; Flash is about expression. Flash is about just the joy of exuberant running and of freedom, and the moment you weight him down with too much Batman-like baggage... that's not the Flash anymore.
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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
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Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'
