Daron Malakian Quotes
I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I think towards the end of my career, I'm the man. But right now, I've still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving myself time and again. I'm not going to believe the hype.
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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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Writing music is just like writing a book.
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I don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.
