Serj Tankian Quotes
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
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As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.
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Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
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For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.
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Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
