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• Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Opposites, Theologian

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning of life is much more serious.

  Edward Steichen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

  Donald Wuerl

  Way, Problem, Environment

  "Do Catholics have a religious duty to protect the Earth?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 18, 2015.

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• Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Grateful, Heart

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• I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Mean, Thinking, Civilization

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

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• Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and he will be certain that you are either telling the truth or a big, important lie.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Lying, Kids

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• You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

  Norman Mailer

  Believe, Writing, Fiction

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• For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

  Anthony Burgess

  Artist, Doe, Needs

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• I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Serious Person, Use, Persons

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

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• Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?” With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?” He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.” “I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.” “Oh, because we’re so good-looking

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mirrors, Giving, Waiting

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• My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery.

  Melissa Rivers

  Mother, Prayer, Recovery

  "Joan Rivers' condition 'remains serious' at NYC hospital, her daughter says" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. August 31, 2014.

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• We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

  Anthony Crosland

  Party, Believe, Mean

  The Times, September 8, 1977.

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• I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, School

  "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

  Jane Pauley

  Months, Enough

  "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

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• No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Should Have, Phases

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• There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.

  Katy Perry

  Flirting, People, Appropriate

  "'Part of Me' is Katy Perry in all her glory, pain". Interview with Bryan Alexander, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 4, 2012.

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• I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

  Steven Pinker

  Atheism, Jew, Various

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  Natalie Portman

  Kids, Ambitious, Different

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• A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Civilization, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

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• Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

  Colin Powell

  Bags, Stuff, Tough

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• I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Suffering, Helping

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• 'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Interesting, Ridiculous, Discworld

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• It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Work, Mistake, People

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• I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Long, People, Directors

  "Daniel Radcliffe takes steps to 'Succeed' after 'Harry Potter'" by Elysa Gardner, usatoday30.usatoday.com. March 14, 2011.

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