If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
Boris Johnson
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I always like to do serious plays.
Charlotte Rae
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Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.
Barton Gellman
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Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.
Ron Kind
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The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.
Morley Safer
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Adam Sandler
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The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.
Joel McHale
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Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
Bryan Clay
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
Earl King
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Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
Rube Goldberg
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If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation.
Lynn Good
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I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.
Danis Tanovic
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We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.
Jenny Packham
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Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
Bob Keeshan
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No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.
Blake Shelton
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Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.
Roxane Gay
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If you're shooting a really serious, dramatic scene, personally I wouldn't want to look at the camera.
Lily-Rose Depp
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I don't know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.
Ehud Olmert
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This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.
John Hawley
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I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
Anton Seidl
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There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
Billy Collins
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In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
Martin Parr
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We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive.
Ken Cuccinelli
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