Serious Quotes

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

Benjamin Harrison

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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Andrew O'Hagan

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The development agenda is not a straightforward one; it's a process with serious hurdles, but it's a path we've chosen to go down.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

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I had only one idea before me throughout the trial, i.e. to show complete indifference towards the trial in spite of serious nature of the charges against us.

Bhagat Singh

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I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.

Mike Judge

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It never felt like we were making a 'Star Wars' movie. It didn't feel like it was serious. It just felt like we were allowed to be creative and kind of goof off.

Kelly Marie Tran

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Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Ben Nicholson

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There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

Andrea Navedo

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As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Aubrey de Grey

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My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

Alek Wek

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I throw the shot put, people expect me to look like somebody named Helga and not put on make up to be considered serious about my sport.

Michelle Carter

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Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

Ken Thompson

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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

Young Jeezy

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I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

Mena Suvari

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Working on a particular look doesn't make you a serious actor.

Ali Fazal

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My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serious Man.' I just love, love 'A Serious Man.'

Alden Ehrenreich

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I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

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The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

Kelly Hu

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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Walter Pater

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Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

John Moody

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Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Ali Babacan

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I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

Willem Dafoe

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I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

Michael Moore

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I had to fight with myself not to hurt people, some serious mental wars.

Kimbo Slice

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