Daron Malakian Quotes
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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To suggest that a Muslim cannot think for himself sounds to me very much like an incident of anti-Muslim bigotry.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
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There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
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I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
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A character is as much about what you do as what you say.
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We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.
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Even with all the threats, it was still somehow inconceivable to me that someone would actually try to kill me. Harass me? Sure. Threaten me? Yeah. Sue me? If they could find a reason! But murder? That shit’s for the movies. People don’t kill people! I mean, they do, obviously, I’ve seen a newspaper. It says something, maybe, about how my mind works that I had received literal death threats but never considered that someone would try to kill me.
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I don't ever put down bands.
