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• Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Opposites, Theologian

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

  Etty Hillesum

  Silly, Should Have, Sake

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.494, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

  Donald Wuerl

  Way, Problem, Environment

  "Do Catholics have a religious duty to protect the Earth?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 18, 2015.

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• Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Lying, Kids

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• Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Grateful, Heart

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• I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Mean, Thinking, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

  Anthony Burgess

  Artist, Doe, Needs

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• You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

  Norman Mailer

  Believe, Writing, Fiction

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• I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Serious Person, Use, Persons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?” With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?” He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.” “I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.” “Oh, because we’re so good-looking

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mirrors, Giving, Waiting

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• My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery.

  Melissa Rivers

  Mother, Prayer, Recovery

  "Joan Rivers' condition 'remains serious' at NYC hospital, her daughter says" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2014.

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• We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

  Anthony Crosland

  Party, Believe, Mean

  The Times, September 8, 1977.

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• I have generally not responded to sexism if it's about me. And I have responded if it's about somebody else, because if women in general are being degraded, are being dismissed, then I can respond in a way that demonstrates I'm not taking it personally but I'm really serious about rejecting that kind of behavior.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kind, Behavior, Sexism

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• AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Scary, Kind

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• I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

  Bruce Springsteen

  School, Trying, Way

  "Glastonbury 2009: Bruce Springsteen". Interview with Steve Lamacq, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2009.

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• However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Java, Language, Flaws

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  President, Politics, Trouble

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Politics, Easy

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• There might be some serious fun in politics.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Might

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.192, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster.

  Paul Theroux

  Thinking, Conversation, Persons

  "I don't think there's genius in my writing". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2001.

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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

  Life, Success, Sports

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• As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Men, Hypnosis, President

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