Quotes and Sayings About Serious
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The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
-- A. Edward Newton -
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.
-- A. Scott Berg -
This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
-- Abhisit Vejjajiva -
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
-- Adam Carolla -
Hey, I'm serious here? Why do you have to ask me how many hits I have?
-- Adam Dunn -
Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.
-- Adam RaynerSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.
-- Al Gore -
This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
-- Al Gore -
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
-- Al Pacino -
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
-- Alan KaySource : Creative Think talk, www.folklore.org. July 20, 1982.
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I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
-- Alan Rickman -
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
-- Alan Watts -
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The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.
-- Albert J. NockSource : "Our Enemy, The State". Book by Albert Jay Nock, Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Press, 1950.
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I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
-- Albert Oehlen -
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
-- Alexander Pope -
There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
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The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.
-- Alfred Shrubb -
If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.
-- Ali MacGraw -
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
-- Alice HamiltonSource : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd
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Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.
-- Allen LeechSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
-- Allen TateSource : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
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The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.
-- Amanda Bynes -
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I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.
-- Amanda Bynes