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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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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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 love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—
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I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.
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Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.
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Evils draw men together.
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America loves to watch people growing and getting better.
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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.
