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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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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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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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.
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When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.
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In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.
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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.
