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.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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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.'
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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.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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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.
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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.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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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.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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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.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
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I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.
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I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.
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The quality of life of European cities and towns of almost any size make life in America look not just like a joke, but a sick joke, a horror movie. But I'd rather stay involved and do what I can to make this a better place than move to the south of France and enjoy the good life.
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The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.
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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.
