Quotes with serious

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bob Barr Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Brendon Urie Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Charles Dickens I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • William Congreve I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled ''Science Fiction'' and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Bryant Gumbel I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bruce Robinson I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • John McGahern I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
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    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Ann Beattie I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Ana Castillo I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
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  • Arthur Miller I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Jim Carrey I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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