Serj Tankian Quotes
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
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I have this big kid in me. I indulge him; I let him out to horse around. I think I'm being a great old man.
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Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
