Daron Malakian Quotes
In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
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My family has always provided me unconditional love and support.
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The word for smoke should look like smoke - the word for rain should look like rain...
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.
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In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
