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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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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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
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I think law enforcement should respect their undercover agents and listen to what they have to say.
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Human nature is weak.
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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.
