Serious Quotes

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It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush… — Peter Beinart
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely… — Arthur Kleinman
An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly… — Nicole Richie
The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very… — Timothy Bottoms
I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you can do serious writing in… — Lou Reed
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my… — Campbell Scott
I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama. — Phoebe Tonkin
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control… — S. T. Joshi
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a… — Angela Davis
I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things — Selena
When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return,… — Khaled Mashal
The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them. — Ehud Olmert
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for… — Wendell Berry
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,… — Toni Morrison
The election is not a time to discuss serious issues. — Kim Campbell
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. — Cato the Elder
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all… — David Foster Wallace
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal. — Robert Breault
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the… — Ayelet Waldman
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball. — Jim Sensenbrenner
I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a… — Nate Silver
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a… — David Halberstam
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious… — Ansel Adams
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations. — Erica Jong

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