Serious Quotes
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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.
Dominic Purcell
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
Zachary Taylor
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The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I'm not always happy, I promise. I can be serious.
Halston Sage
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley
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It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.
C. S. Lewis
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.
Emil Ferris
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
Abhishek Bachchan
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I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.
John Grisham
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I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.
Allan Guthrie
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TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Neil Postman
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All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer
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You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.
Cleo Moore
