Serious Quotes
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It’s a sorry statement about how broken Washington is that we could not take advantage of this unique and sad moment in history and enact serious lobbying reform. We owed it to the people who sent us to Washington to root out corruption, and the Senate ...
Senator John Kerry
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they nev...
Senator John Kerry
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It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
Robert M. Hutchins
Keywords: about :: an :: any :: as :: be :: because :: but :: college :: credit :: do :: expression :: he :: important :: is :: it :: itches :: monkey :: not :: of :: serious :: seriousness :: so :: student :: the :: things :: to :: wears :: which :: wouldSubject: Seriousness QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
Robert M. Hutchins
Keywords: about :: an :: any :: as :: be :: because :: but :: college :: credit :: do :: expression :: he :: important :: is :: it :: itches :: monkey :: not :: of :: serious :: seriousness :: so :: student :: the :: things :: to :: wears :: which :: wouldSubject: Seriousness QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
Robert M. Hutchins
Keywords: about :: an :: any :: as :: be :: because :: but :: college :: credit :: do :: expression :: he :: important :: is :: it :: itches :: monkey :: not :: of :: serious :: seriousness :: so :: student :: the :: things :: to :: wears :: which :: wouldSubject: Seriousness QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
Proverb
Subject: Imitation QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Norman Cousins
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
Lewis Gannit
Keywords: about :: an :: and :: because :: cannot :: cocktail :: disease :: drinking :: escape :: eyes :: garden :: gardening :: get :: go :: impulse :: infects :: interrupt :: irresistible :: is :: it :: kind :: of :: pull :: rove :: serious :: the :: to :: up :: visiting :: weed :: when :: you :: yourSubject: Gardens QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone
Gilbert Burnet
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it`s much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
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We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn`t mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do m...
Jeanette Winterson
Keywords: and :: are :: back :: beside :: chatter :: day :: do :: dusting :: friends :: front :: half :: in :: inconsequential :: like :: mind :: miss :: of :: paper :: pass :: read :: reading :: serious :: the :: to :: up :: washing :: we :: while :: with :: would :: wouldn :: youSubject: Friendship QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism
David Suzuki
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Serious illness doesn`t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O`Connor
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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
Cicero
Subject: Laws QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Shaw
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Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
Pope John Paul II
Keywords: at :: ecological :: find :: it :: its :: lifestyles :: look :: modern :: no :: problem :: serious :: society :: solution :: takes :: the :: to :: unless :: willSubject: Ecology Quotes :: Solution QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It`s a serious matter. You compromise, you give, yo...
Maya Angelou
Keywords: accident :: and :: are :: at :: believe :: birth :: brotherhood :: brothers :: compromise :: conditions :: do :: give :: gives :: have :: it :: makes :: matter :: mutuality :: not :: of :: parentage :: people :: serious :: siblings :: sisterhood :: sisters :: take :: that :: the :: them :: to :: work :: youSubject: Birth Quotes :: Humanity QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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A joke is a very serious thing
Winston Churchill
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It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing
Winston Churchill
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Subject: Humor QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
Keywords: all :: and :: boastfulness :: bound :: disregard :: do :: fair :: has :: hatred :: in :: is :: it :: jealousy :: minus :: nothing :: of :: other :: play :: pleasure :: rules :: sadistic :: serious :: shooting :: sport :: the :: to :: up :: violence :: war :: with :: witnessing :: wordsSubject: Sports QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
Keywords: all :: and :: boastfulness :: bound :: disregard :: do :: fair :: has :: hatred :: in :: is :: it :: jealousy :: minus :: nothing :: of :: other :: play :: pleasure :: rules :: sadistic :: serious :: shooting :: sport :: the :: to :: up :: violence :: war :: with :: witnessing :: wordsSubject: Sports QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
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To be certain, neither I nor my film is anti-Semitic. The Passion is a movie meant to inspire, not offend. My intention in bringing it to the screen is to create a lasting work of art and engender serious thought among audiences of diverse faith backgroun...
Mel Gibson
Keywords: among :: and :: anti :: art :: audiences :: backgrounds :: be :: bringing :: certain :: create :: diverse :: engender :: faith :: film :: in :: inspire :: intention :: is :: it :: lasting :: meant :: movie :: my :: neither :: nor :: not :: of :: offend :: passion :: screen :: semitic :: serious :: the :: thought :: to :: workSource: imdb.com
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I did. I called my attorney. My agent. My manager. I said "You know y`all, you`re serious about this? I`m really.. I gotta get out of this. Like can`t they call `Leann Rimes`? I mean she`s good." - On trying to get out of the part of June Carter Cash in W...
Reese Witherspoon
Keywords: 2005 :: about :: agent :: all :: attorney :: call :: called :: can :: carter :: cash :: did :: get :: good :: gotta :: in :: june :: know :: leann :: like :: line :: manager :: mean :: my :: of :: on :: out :: part :: re :: really :: rimes :: said :: serious :: she :: the :: they :: this :: to :: trying :: walk :: youSource: imdb.com
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I`ve been doing serious acting for as long as I`ve been working, but sadly, most Asians don`t attend plays or tune into what they consider arty dramas, but I know they`ll watch Bride & Prejudice (2004). It`s not exactly serious acting, but at least I won`...
Indira Varma
Keywords: 2004 :: acting :: and :: arty :: as :: asians :: at :: attend :: be :: been :: bride :: but :: consider :: doing :: don :: dramas :: exactly :: for :: into :: it :: know :: least :: ll :: long :: most :: not :: or :: plays :: prejudice :: sadly :: serious :: they :: tune :: ve :: watch :: what :: won :: workingSource: imdb.com
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I`ve been doing serious acting for as long as I`ve been working, but sadly, most Asians don`t attend plays or tune into what they consider arty dramas, but I know they`ll watch Bride & Prejudice (2004). It`s not exactly serious acting, but at least I won`...
Indira Varma
Keywords: 2004 :: acting :: and :: arty :: as :: asians :: at :: attend :: be :: been :: bride :: but :: consider :: doing :: don :: dramas :: exactly :: for :: into :: it :: know :: least :: ll :: long :: most :: not :: or :: plays :: prejudice :: sadly :: serious :: they :: tune :: ve :: watch :: what :: won :: workingSource: imdb.com
