- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious Quotes
When something finally demands to be taken seriously.
These serious quotes call for treating education with the urgency it deserves, note how seriously an injury can threaten a team's season, and weigh in on the long-running debate over whether studying the classics is a waste of time. It's a page about what people insist actually matters. See Life for more on priorities.
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- Distinguishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.
- Balanced Budget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had delusions of being a 'serious actor,' and I wanted to pursue those delusions.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had my serious side - I idolized Bobby Kennedy; he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family of piano players. Both my sisters were serious players, and they both, as they became more accomplished, aspired to buy a Steinway and asked my dad to buy a Steinway.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.
- Nov 07, 2020