Serious quotes
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"Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music."
"Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma."
"So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future."
"Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters."
"I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny."
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"Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians."
"I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously."
"Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth."
"It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine."
"It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution."
"Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery."
"Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot."
"Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious."
"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."
"There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church."
"The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose."
"He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger"
"The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is."
"We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious."
"In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime."
"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
"I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown."
"Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security."
"I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me."
"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."
