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I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

Serj Tankian

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.
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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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As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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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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I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.
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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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