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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
-
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.
-
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
-
Actors don't have real value.
-
Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
-
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
-
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
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.
-
I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
-
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
-
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
-
I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
-
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.
-
Cholesterol does not exist in vegetables. Vegetables do not clog arteries.
-
There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
-
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
-
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.
