Serj Tankian Quotes

I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

Serj Tankian System Of A Down

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• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Couple
  • New York
  • Pizza

• Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Shine

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Understanding
  • Spiritual
  • Parent

• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Very
  • Matters
  • Pass

• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse
  • Top

• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Wait
  • Minute

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• 'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Power
  • Funny

• At a horror movie, you can see other people dealing with the scary things. They can bolster you. You can think, 'Okay, if that guy can deal with it, I can deal with it.' There are lessons to be learned there, as opposed to having a frivolous popcorn experience. I think some of this stuff is good for your soul.

  

  Dan Trachtenberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they're detrimental to our health.

  

  John Rampton
  • Bad
  • Health
  • Mistake

• How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies?  The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spring

• The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Time

• Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland' from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.' 62 Chap. lxxii.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • History

• I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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