Serious Quotes
3122 Serious quotes by 2259 unique authors
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that…
— Paul Auster
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths.…
— Julian Assange
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The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you…
— David Attenborough
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I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
— Michele Bachmann
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and…
— Michele Bachmann
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I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.
— David Bailey
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Serious journalism need not be solemn.
— Russell Baker
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How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
— Christian Bale
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I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising.…
— Christian Bale
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The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
— Lester Bangs
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When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to…
— Tyra Banks
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without…
— Javier Bardem
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I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour…
— Travis Barker
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
— Charles Barkley
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to…
— Roseanne Barr
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I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
— Syd Barrett
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder,…
— Jack Benny
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories…
— Annie Besant
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What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting…
— Jello Biafra
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Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony…
— Lewis Black
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening…
— John Boehner
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
— Niels Bohr
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I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
— Anthony Bourdain
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