Serj Tankian Quotes
As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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I turned down one of the big young adult franchises.
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My last meal on Earth? The obvious answer is a plate of my mother's scrambled eggs.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
