Serj Tankian Quotes
It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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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.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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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?
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.
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Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l’univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l’homme. La deuxième manifestation n’est pas moins sacrée que la première. La première s’appelle la Nature, la deuxième s’appelle l’Art.
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Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
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When you're a young kid, you've burst onto the scene, everyone want sort be your friend, come out with you, and you don't actually realise who wants to be there with you and who wants to be your friend.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
