Serj Tankian Quotes
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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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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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
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Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.
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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
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In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
