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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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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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 hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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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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We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
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Visibility doesn't always equal freedom.
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I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.
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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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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.
