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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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
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In the Middle East in the summertime, to keep cool, a lot of people sleep on the rooftops.
