Daron Malakian Quotes
I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'
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I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.
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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
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I'm a big believer that there's a reason for everything. I'm a hopeless optimist.
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Love is many and truth is just, And so we are; Both What we choose, And we refuse.
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I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
