- Journalism
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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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- Heady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.
- Granite
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to do this. No, no, I'm serious, you're not going to do this' to get me not to do my stuff.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been really hard to watch the news of this Anonymous and LulzSec stuff because most of what they do - defacing Web sites and running denial-of-service attacks - is not serious. It's really just nuisance.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
- Duck
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- Nov 07, 2020