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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
Serj Tankian
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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
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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.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
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