- Culture
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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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- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
- Democratic Societies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
- Illness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
- Life Is Too Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is too short to be serious.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes my friends and I are sill,y and sometimes we're serious, and sometimes we're emotional, and sometimes we're not.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020