Serious Quotes

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Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages… — Rachel Wade
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the… — Priscilla Presley
I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious. — Carmen Electra
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. — Don Adams
One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked… — Bryan White
The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks… — John George Nicolay
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with… — Paul Berg
If I've learned anything, it's there's just no drama, which is awesome. I've also just learned to read when it's a good time to talk… — Hillary Scott
Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home. — David Mixner
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one… — Gary Kleck
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all… — Donna J. Haraway
I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard… — Tony Campolo
The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke. — George Harrison
With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's… — Charles S. Maier
A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in… — Vivian Gornick
Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas. — Carl L. Becker
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. — James S. Coleman
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. — David Cone
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss… — Tipper Gore
I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun. — Ruby Wax
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. — Carter Heyward
There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care. — Sterling W Sill
My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant… — Emily Procter
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise… — Andrew Eldritch
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop… — Arthur Laffer

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