Serj Tankian Quotes
To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Actors don't have real value.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.
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'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.
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As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.
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Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.
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To deny a genocide because of convenience and expediency having to do with an illegal war or occupation in Iraq to me, is double hypocritical.
