- 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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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.
- Enamored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washington's most sought-after bachelor.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The New Yorker' was really my first experience with serious editing. Previously, I'd more or less just had copyediting with a few suggestions - not much.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aside from Joan Rivers and Roseanne, it's hard for me to think of any female comedian who's had kids and has a serious level of fame - like, the level where your mother has heard of them.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
- Envied
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be serious for an hour; then I have to go lie down.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that people's real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, 'not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care' - in a word, awkward.
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- Nov 07, 2020