Daron Malakian Quotes
In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I'm quadracontinental. I've got a life in London, New York, L.A. and Hawaii.
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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
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In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
