Serious Quotes - Page 6

• I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

  Zadie Smith

  Home, Ideas, Literature

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Olympia Snowe

  Cancer, Simple, Long

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• I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

  Susan Sontag

  Wake Up, Passionate, Engagement

  "Susan Sontag Finds Romance". Interview with Leslie Garis, www.nytimes.com. August 2, 1992.

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• Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, Study, Academic

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• Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

  Herbert Spencer

  Science, Pursuit, Tithe

  Herbert Spencer (1890). “Education, Intellectual, Moral, and Physical”, p.72, Рипол Классик

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• You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Silly, Eye, Connections

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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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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• It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

  Ken Thompson

  Criminals, Hackers, Prosecution

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Football, Cutting, Personality

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Kentucky, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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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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• About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

  Gene Tierney

  Careers, Sometimes, Impatient

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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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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• Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Thinking, Turtles

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

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• I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Disturbed

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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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• When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

  Steven Tyler

  Airplane, Thinking, Needs

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• It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Secret, Trying

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