- Happy
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Catalonian movement is quite serious; I don't think it's simply symbolic. I think that they believe that Catalonia can be more successful on its own than as part of Spain.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me, coming from a low-income background, I really didn't take my studies serious as a young kid.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
- Sun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have serious challenges regarding climate change, unsustainable use of natural resources, water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, forests and farmland. Not to mention the huge inequality still prevailing in several parts of the planet.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's not kid ourselves. You pick up 'The Washington Post' and find O.J. Simpson on the front page; 'serious journalists' covered Anna Nicole Smith.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly expensive oil and a key figure in Nixon and Kissinger's move into the Middle East, wanted to be dealt with as a serious person.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020