Serious Quotes
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If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards.
Barack Obama
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I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
Jesse Eisenberg
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
Vint Cerf
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When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman
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It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
Bryce Dallas Howard
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It's a little tight; I feel it still. I don't think it's that serious. I think it's something that will feel better.
Gary Sheffield
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I'm a lot less serious than people think.
Alan Rickman
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I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
Maria Semple
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Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?
Jonathan Galassi
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Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.
Martin Landau
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Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
Ana Castillo
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I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s.
Britta Phillips
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One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
Mena Suvari
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The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction also represents a serious danger. If these weapons were to fall into the hands of terrorists, and they pursue this aim, the consequences would be simply disastrous.
Vladimir Putin
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When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more.
Ana Castillo
