Serj Tankian Quotes

I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

Serj Tankian System Of A Down

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• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Running

• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Want
  • Drug
  • Tell

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Long
  • Fast
  • Programming

• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Hands
  • Filmmaking
  • Starting

• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Question
  • Two
  • Sides

• I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Girl
  • Hair
  • Down

• When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

  

  Kaskade
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Laugh
  • Out
  • Loud

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Help
  • Him
  • Allah

• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Been

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Reason
  • Saying
  • Nonsense

• Ignore the ignorant.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Ignore

• The windows of my soul I throwWide open to the sun.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Soul
  • Sun

• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Fear
  • Support
  • Eyes

• I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

  

  Frank Stella
  • World
  • Art

• The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

  

  Bill Cunningham The Box Tops
  • Good
  • Women

• I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Good
  • Society
  • Vision