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• Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

  Jill Dando

  Mean, Hair, Blonde

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• However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Desire, May

  "Electrical Papers". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Vol. I; Preface, p. vii, 1892.

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• If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

  Johan Huizinga

  Dream, Laughter, Children

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• You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

  Johan Huizinga

  Play, Justice, Mind

  Johan Huizinga (1971). “Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

  Peter Bart

  Falling In Love, Cutting, Serious

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• To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.

  Al Alvarez

  Mistake, Climbing, Routine Life

  "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.

  Milton Friedman

  Fighting, Blow, Law

  "Tyranny of the status quo".

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• But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

  Roger Penrose

  Beauty, Pregnancy, Thinking

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

  Nia Long

  Children, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

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

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• Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

  Ralph Merkle

  People, Population, Today

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• From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

  Georg Solti

  Essentials, Desperate

  "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.

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• The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart’s jewel, is Mendelssohn’s.

  Joseph Joachim

  Heart, Jewels, Seductive

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• Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party philosophies and prepared the ground for 2016.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Philosophy, Party, Differences

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• The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Minorities, Moral

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

  Tim Duncan

  Strange, Should, Difficult

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• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  Adam Gopnik

  Eerie, Space, Long

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• I understand the seriousness of concussions.

  Peyton Manning

  Concussions

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• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  Hal Sparks

  Style, Yang, Study

  "Comedian Hal Sparks on love and pot" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.

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• For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Icons, Dating, Deployment

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• We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Self, Long, Effort

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• My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

  Milan Kundera

  Ambition, Form, Lifelong

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• There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.

  Tim Lebbon

  Fun, Past, Air

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• Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Men, Magic

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Art a Thing of No Consequence", 1925.

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• If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.

  Vanessa Friedman

  People, Way, Respecting Others

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