Serious Quotes - Page 4

• Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

  Anne Fadiman

  Bereavement, Matter, Pens

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.89, Macmillan

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• I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

  Steven Pinker

  Atheism, Jew, Various

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• 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

  Humor, Thinking, Hair

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• When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

  Gene Tierney

  Dream, Men, Womanizer

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• We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

  Mitt Romney

  Ideas, Enemy, World

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

  Ted Turner

  Years, Watches, News

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• I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Focus, Needs, Opera

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I've tried to be vegetarian but I keep falling off the horse and, like, eating it'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Stars, Parent, Musician

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• In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Opportunity, Errors, Politics

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Europe, May

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• Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Crazy, Insanity

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• At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

  Stephen King

  School, Class, World

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.

  David McCullough

  Mean, America, Ignorant

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 22, 2012

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• I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

  Oliver Reed

  Important, Remember, Made

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• A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Civilization, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

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• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  Natalie Portman

  Kids, Ambitious, Different

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• Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

  Colin Powell

  Bags, Stuff, Tough

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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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• 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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• 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've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Long, People, Directors

  "Daniel Radcliffe takes steps to 'Succeed' after 'Harry Potter'" by Elysa Gardner, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 14, 2011.

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• I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Mind, Take Me

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• Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Evil, Survival

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• What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

  Tom Robbins

  Evil, Mind, Trying

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• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  Pat Robertson

  Country, Thinking, Erosion

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