Serj Tankian Quotes

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

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• I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • World
  • Important
  • Hope

• Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Father
  • Forever
  • Dance

• My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Judgment
  • Errors
  • Failures

• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • May
  • Reality

• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Know
  • Week
  • France

• I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lost
  • Well
  • Mental

• If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Past
  • Audience
  • Young

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Science
  • Political
  • Professional

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Morning
  • Easy
  • New York

• To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Women
  • Black
  • Crazy

• And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Work
  • Red
  • Laugh

• I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.

  

  Joe Madureira

• The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Action
  • Paris
  • Donors

• I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song