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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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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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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There's something to be said for a disregard of fashion, but it has to be a carefully curated disregard. It works best, I think, on someone under 18. After the age of, say, 40, you can end up looking like a bag lady.
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Your levels of cholesterol are primarily dependent on your own body's production rather than the result of eating animal fats. Moreover, some forms of cholesterol are heart healthy.
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I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice.
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Before, back in the '50s, women didn't have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it's a partnership. It's not like this old traditional marriage that it once was.
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
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People's attention spans don't run too long these days.
