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"Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion."
"When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding."
"I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time."
"Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?"
"People will know you’re serious when you produce."
"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."
"It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual."
"Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will."
"Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us."
"I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard."
"For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history."
"I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses."
"Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair."
"He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret."
"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."
"There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself."
"To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious."
"The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns."
"We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie."
