Daron Malakian Quotes
You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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How do you eat your roots?
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.
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White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.
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You put too many songs on your record, and it ends up like a family with too many kids: some of them get neglected.
