Serj Tankian Quotes
A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
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I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
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Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.
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My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
