Daron Malakian Quotes
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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I like being unconventional.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
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No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run into all the time, but they don't think they are doing anything wrong. If they do, they think they are cunning and smart. When people break laws and ethical rules, they justify it in their own terms.
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People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
