Serj Tankian Quotes
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.
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Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.
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I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.
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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
