Serj Tankian Quotes

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

Serj Tankian System Of A Down

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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Work
  • Best
  • Understand

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• My inspiration is love and history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Inspiration

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Hand
  • Enough
  • U.S.

• I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • People
  • Society
  • Period

• Great acts are made up of small deeds.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Reason
  • Tax

• Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • End
  • Look
  • Season

• Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Power
  • Today
  • Woman

• Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Simple
  • Project
  • Meant To Be

• Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can’t teach old fleas new dogs.

  

  Federico Fellini

• The child who defines a lie as being a 'naughty word' knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word 'lie'.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Truth
  • Naughty

• I think I'm done gunnin to get closer.To some imagined bliss.I gotta knuckle down.And just be ok with this.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Done

• I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Time
  • Important

• I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Feel
  • Place
  • Still

• I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Best
  • Vision

• The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole

• Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

  

  Allen Wheelis
  • Certainty
  • Resigned
  • Nihilists

• It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down