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• I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

  Oliver Reed

  Important, Remember, Made

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• We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Ocean, Two

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• As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.

  Eric Ries

  Real, Serious Illness, Entrepreneur

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• Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Evil, Survival

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• What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

  Tom Robbins

  Evil, Mind, Trying

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• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  Pat Robertson

  Country, Thinking, Erosion

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• I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Mind, Take Me

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• We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

  Mitt Romney

  Ideas, Enemy, World

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. September 17, 2010.

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• In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Opportunity, Errors, Politics

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.

  Richard Russo

  Book, Secret, Trying

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• Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Europe, Decision

  Paul Ryan's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 29, 2012.

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• When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

  Paul Ryan

  Emotional, Play, Ideas

  "Paul Ryan Raises Money Off Of President Barack Obama’s Budget Speech" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Groups, Germany

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• Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

  Adam Sandler

  Boyfriend, Father, Feel Good

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• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Crime, Process

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• I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

  Jessica Savitch

  Peers, Literature, Accepted

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving Up, Serious Things, Things To Do

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• The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

  Charles Schumer

  Matter, Administration, Domes

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• Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Serious Illness, Long, Host

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• Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

  Will Self

  Jobs, Book, People

  "Will Self considers the Coen brothers". www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2011.

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• It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

  Ayrton Senna

  Risk, Lucky, Happens

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• Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

  Amanda Seyfried

  New York, First Love, Voice

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• Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

  Richard Simmons

  Jobs, Laughing, Cry

  "Richard Simmons Spreads The Gospel Of Fitness". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  Barbara Smith

  Unique, Black, Important

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