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Hank Aaron I never smile when I have...
Neil Abercrombie You're talking serious money already...
Karl Abraham A considerable number of persons...
F. Murray Abraham I don't want to talk in...
Floyd Abrams I think we have some serious...
Henry B. Adams Power when wielded by abnormal...
Don Adams Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward...
Felix Adler Admitting the force of these...
Tom Allen Despite the increase in world...
Anacharsis Play so that you may be...
Loni Anderson As a brunette, I had...
Gillian Anderson It's so funny, because right...
Maxwell Anderson The essence of a tragedy, or...
Dario Argento To try and raise a budget...
John Ashcroft The Internet provides very serious...
Mackenzie Astin There is a healthy fraternal...
Bob Balaban If anyone would have been...
Lester Bangs The first mistake of art is...
Harry F. Banks Protect your health. Without it...
Russell Banks I began as a boy with...
Ehud Barak Iran poses the most serious...
Maurice Baring There is a vast difference...
Travis Barker Oh, I was super serious about...
Travis Barker I'm super serious about that...
Syd Barrett I've just had an operation...
Isaac Barrow If men are wont to play...
Peter Bart Historically, filmmakers always fall in...
Derek Harold Richard Barton The first serious applications were...
Leonard Baskin There is, however, a change...
Ann Beattie While I would agree that I...
Ann Beattie I think that I'm serious, but...
Simone de Beauvoir The word love has by no...
Jack Benny My wife Mary and I have...
Paul Berg Paradoxically, no such embargo exists...
John Desmond Bernal We shall be forced to attempt...
Carl Bernstein The pressure to compete, the...
Michael Berryman And religion causes most of...
Jello Biafra What I'm getting at is, you...
Theodore Bikel While we all could agree that...
Tim Bishop We need to get serious about...
Bonnie Blair My parents put skates on me...
John Blair We can't fool ourselves that...
Carla Bley It would be really hard to...
Wolf Blitzer Looks like a pretty serious...
Earl Blumenauer While the United States has...
Niels Bohr There are some things so...
Timothy Bottoms The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis...
Eddie Bracken Working with Sturges was like...
Louis D. Brandeis Fear of serious injury alone...
Toni Braxton I'm a businesswoman who's serious...
Paul Bremer I think what we've learned is...
Fanny Brice Being a funny person does an...
Gro H. Brundtland This double burden of disease...
Young Buck Around the age of 14, 15...
Warren Buffett I am quite serious when I...
Vincent Bugliosi A national legal organization is...
Jeremy Bulloch No, Jar Jar Binks was fine...
Gelett Burgess To appreciate nonsense requires a...
Richard Francis Burton One death to a man is...
Steve Buscemi I didn't think I'd ever be...
Steve Buscemi Bob Altman had this relaxed...
George H. W. Bush But let me tell you, this...
Samuel Butler The one serious conviction that...
Taylor Caldwell Though I am a Catholic, a...
Maria Callas I am not an angel and...
Tony Campolo And we've got to ask ourselves...
Albert Camus There is but one truly serious...
Truman Capote I got this idea of doing...
Andrew Carnegie I resolved to stop accumulating...
John Carpenter It's a very good time for...
Edward Carpenter Where there had been only...
Allan Carr I'd love to do acting, but...
Jim Carrey I'm very serious about no...
Elliott Carter Well I tried to, but I...
Jimmy Carter People make a big fuss over...
Ana Castillo I'm concerned about a lot of...
Vinton Cerf My reaction to a lot of...
Charlie Chaplin All my pictures are built...
Lord Chesterfield A man of sense only trifles...
Julia Child In France, cooking is a...
Helena Christensen I had never done any serious...
Winston Churchill A joke is a very serious...
Guy Clark It was really amazing. I mean...
Georges Clemenceau War is much too serious a...
Georges Clemenceau War is too serious a matter...
Patsy Cline In childhood I developed a...
Richard J. Codey Postpartum depression is a very...
James S. Coleman If we refuse to accept as...
William Collins I think humor is a very...
William Congreve I find we are growing serious...
Caroline B. Cooney I approach serious subjects, and...
Katie Couric You know, you've got serious...
Katie Couric They see us interacting with...
Jon Crosby Just having the pain of being...
David Cross I'd be curious to find out...
Penelope Cruz The most difficult thing in...
Richard M. Daley First National Bank laid off...
Richard M. Daley I think the state has some...
Evan Dando But ya have to make videos...
Jill Dando Just because I've got blonde...
Mitch Daniels The state of our state needs...
Paula Danziger I made the choice long ago...
Samuel Dash I was a very serious young...
Mark Dayton Many soldiers returning from Iraq...
Mark Dayton The Bush Administration claims there...
Howard Dean Someone earlier made a remark...
Nigel Dennis My first serious project was...
Andrew Denton I've become a much more...
Neil Diamond I don't like all of the...
Philip K. Dick Don't try to solve serious...
Charles Dickens There are only two styles of...
Ernest Dimnet All serious conversations gravitate towards...
Elizabeth Dole Iraq is the central battleground...
Elizabeth Dole The terrorists know what is at...
Mark Van Doren Nothing in man is more serious...
Katherine Dunham Haiti itself was also photographed...
Marguerite Duras When a woman drinks it's as...
Gregg Easterbrook I'm working seven days a week...
Bulent Ecevit So we are fulfilling our task...
Mark Edwards In my mid 30's, after...
Dwight D. Eisenhower In most communities it is...
Dwight D. Eisenhower Politics is a profession; a...
Andrew Eldritch In the beginning, everybody that...
Carmen Electra I love doing comedy - I get...
Ralph Waldo Emerson The search after the great men...
Eliot Engel Scientists have stated that embryonic...
Garth Ennis I suppose that Heartland, Unknown...
Mike Epps Everybody that's living in this...
Joseph Epstein One serious drawback about letters...
Arthur Erickson Bankers cannot afford to be...
Andrew von Eschenbach We will continue to do all...
M. C. Escher My work is a game, a...
Susan Estrich But here's my point to the...
Kevin Eubanks Being as versatile as I am...
Kevin Eubanks I consider myself a serious...
Kevin Eubanks Serious musicians are finding it...
Jim Evans I attribute my success to my...
Mike Farrell My dreams for the future are...
Dianne Feinstein Rogue internet pharmacies continue to...
Richard P. Feynman There is a computer disease...
Leslie Fiedler When I was 12 years old...
Fred F. Fielding It was frightening because it...
Fred F. Fielding It became evident to me that...
Suzanne Fields The lopsided attitudes of college...
Robert Fitzgerald Of course the other and more...
Roberta Flack Bill Evans is a real serious...
Carlisle Floyd If an American audience is...
John T. Flynn Most people in this country...
Henry Flynt I began demonstrating against serious...
Henry Flynt Rock became an incredible commercial...
Henry Flynt The whole drive of western...
Ken Follett James Bond is quite serious...
Ken Follett There was a very serious...
Steve Forbes Today, the US spends less on...
Tom Ford I'm a very serious person.
Lita Ford Life has become serious for me...
Harrison Ford Bikes and planes aren't about...
Harrison Ford If I were a serious person...
James Forrestal There is a serious, immediate...
Bob Fosse Life is just a bowl of...
John Fowles Men love war because it allows...
Virginia Foxx Obesity among young Americans is...
Marie de France I love no woman, for love...
Barney Frank If people knew of ethics...
Benjamin Franklin All who think cannot but see...
Cathy Freeman Between 1991 and 1997 I had...
David Friedman Corn ethanol can help in the...
Toshihiko Fukui The aging and decreasing population...
Neil Gaiman Great, big, serious novels always...
Richard Le Gallienne Modern science, then, so far...
Victor Garber I'm very serious about acting.
Victor Garber One day, we were doing a...
Jose Ortega y Gasset Being an artist means ceasing...
Charles de Gaulle I have come to the conclusion...
Charles de Gaulle Politics is too serious a...
Charles de Gaulle I have come to the conclusion...
Richard Gere Western Buddhists in many ways...
George Gilder The first priority of any...
Brendan Gill Not a shred of evidence exists...
Dizzy Gillespie Men have died for this music...
Tom Glazer I published, privately, a collection...
Mark Goddard I would have liked it to...
Rube Goldberg Uh, I just had an operation...
Paul Goodman It takes application, a fine...
Bart Gordon If our country is serious...
Tipper Gore Eating disorders can have serious...
Edward Gorey I realize that homosexuality is...
Andrew Greeley One cannot escape the harsh...
Andrew Greeley Priest organizations around the country...
Benny Green Any time I need to get...
Bruce Greenwood I do a lot of serious...
Judd Gregg The government has made $44...
Pam Grier I like serious films, the...
Matt Groening I also found child's play...
Stanislav Grof Whether or not we believe in...
Justin Guarini For the second album I look...
Sacha Guitry You can pretend to be serious...
Sacha Guitry You can pretend to be serious...
Jurgen Habermas I consider Bush's decision to...
David Halberstam With the marketing pressures driving...
Deidre Hall I guess I strike people as...
Alice Hamilton Every article I wrote in those...
Harry Hamlin In those days I was mortified...
Renny Harlin There were a lot of people...
Benjamin Harrison This Government has found occasion...
Steven Hatfill So I was surprised at the...
John Hawley This we had to endure with...
Benjamin Haydon Fortunately for serious minds, a...
Werner Heisenberg The problems of language here...
Ernest Hemingway A serious writer is not to...
Ken Hensley I am, first of all, a...
Keith Henson Even small cults are a serious...
A. P. Herbert The concept of two people...
Herodotus If a man insisted always on...
Don Herold It is a good thing that...
Eva Herzigova I'm very serious; I don't...
John Hickenlooper Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors...
John Hickenlooper I assume we will have figured...
Walter Hill Naturally we need black men to...
Anita Hill But I think it would be...
Paul von Hindenburg I believed that our own public...
Ruben Hinojosa Tragically, the White House Task...
Joel Hodgson A lot of times when I...
Judy Holliday I get very nervous whenever I...
Horace Mix a little foolishness with...
Kurt Huber What I intended to accomplish...
Victor Hugo To think of shadows is a...
Brit Hume It's a battle to be seen...
Leigh Hunt The person who can be only...
Samuel P. Huntington But then I came to the...
Robert M. Hutchins It is not so important to...
Henrik Ibsen Really to sin you have to...
Guillermo C. Infante American literature had always considered...
William James There must be something solemn...
Stephan Jenkins Sex is funny and love is...
Roland Joffe I'm not a very serious person...
Tim Johnson I have serious concerns about...
Phillip E. Johnson A constitutional democracy is in...
Jeffrey Jones I would like to feel that...
Jerry Jones But if you look at teams...
June Jordan In the process of telling the...
Leila Josefowicz You're playing serious music, and...
Benjamin Jowett There is a serious defect in...
Robert Downey, Jr. If you're doing a drama that...
Mike Judge I don't think any movie I...
Walid Jumblatt We are very serious about...
Kim Dae Jung So if North Korea continues...
Garry Kasparov Ukraine had quite serious impact...
Alan Kay People who are really serious...
Bob Keeshan Play is the work of children...
Harvey Keitel Hardly any actor objects to...
Dirk Kempthorne Methamphetamine is a hideous drug...
Vanessa Kerry I think my dad is this...
Alan Keyes We must take away the...
Val Kilmer It was very serious and I...
Ron Kind Most of the locks and dams...
Ron Kind In a time of serious budget...
Ben E. King The Phil Spector that I would...
Herb Kohl Bankruptcy is a serious decision...
Harvey Korman Funny is when you're serious.
David Korten In a world of increasing...
Lenny Kravitz They think I'm being serious...
Nicholas D. Kristof If President Bush is serious...
Joseph Wood Krutch The most serious charge which...
Hans Kung It is an absolutely unique...
Mila Kunis I love swimming, tennis, and I...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi A more significant phase should...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Once serious political dialogue has...
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Sanctions and boycotts would be...
Emeril Lagasse I started cooking when I was...
Emeril Lagasse In the restaurant it's much...
Christine Lahti I wanted to be an actress...
Mary Landrieu The high price of health care...
Serge Lang If Baltimore's view, that scientists...
Rick Larsen We are the greatest country in...
Cyndi Lauper Humour is a great vehicle for...
Frank Lautenberg Anybody who has ever been in...
Christine Lavin I was a very, very serious...
Fran Lebowitz If you are truly serious abut...
Vladimir Lenin Politics begin where the masses...
Jay Leno The crime problem in New York...
Max Lerner When you are seventeen you...
Ron Lewis Meth production and use is a...
Ron Livingston If I'm in something funny, I...
Titus Livius The troubles which have come...
Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me...
Nia Long I don't think you should...
Pierre Loti I still have in my memory...
Bela Lugosi If you are not serious, people...
Trofim Lysenko The classics of Marxism, while...
Arthur Machen Now, everybody, I suppose, is...
Lee Majors Knee replacement is serious stuff...
Tom Mann Bill Bradley is a serious...
Franz Marc Serious art has been the work...
Jacques Maritain Americans seem sometimes to believe...
Ed Markey The falsification of scientific data...
Mike Marsh RFID is going to get its...
Nick Mason I have about 40 cars, of...
Francis Maude For the most part our...
Thabo Mbeki If you sit in a position...
Thabo Mbeki Well, because lots of questions...
Paul McCartney I don't ever try to make...
Linda McCartney When Paul was arrested in...
John McGahern I think fiction is a very...
Donald McKay I've been a writer for 42...
David McNally Commitment is the enemy of...
James Meade But my shift to the serious...
Ralph Merkle Today we see a human...
Ralph Merkle One of the issues facing us...
Jason Mewes I definitely would like to do...
George Michael I've never done anything so...
Myriam Miedzian To be deeply committed to...
Myriam Miedzian As long as male behavior is...
Barbara Mikulski A pregnant woman facing the...
Arthur Miller I'm the end of the line...
Merton Miller To beat the market you'll have...
Jonathan Miller You spend ten years of your...
Alan Minter Sure, there have been injuries...
Michel de Montaigne For truly it is to be...
John Moody Consequently many large railroad systems...
Cleo Moore You know, just because you're...
Giorgio Moroder The disco sound, you must see...
Giorgio Moroder Too many of these writers in...
Mark Morris Perhaps... I mean there are...
Richard Morris Even Catholic parishes today are...
Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as...
Vic Morrow Because we are in a war...
Alonzo Mourning Once my doctor began treating...
Iris Murdoch Human affairs are not serious...
Bill Murray I think all phases of one's...
Story Musgrave There really isn't a time to...
Ralph Nader Once you don't vote your...
Gaylord Nelson We must recognize that we're...
Robert Nelson Influenza is a serious disease...
Howard Nemerov For a Jewish Puritan of the...
John Newcombe I wouldn't, a little bit...
Jason Newsted I'm busier than a busy person...
Ben Nicholson Satire is fascinating stuff. It's...
John George Nicolay The death of Mrs. Lincoln was...
Kwame Nkrumah A State in the grip of...
Gale Norton We do have serious energy...
Ed O'Brien Everyone who's serious about what...
Sandra Day O'Connor It is difficult to discern a...
Kenzaburo Oe I am one of the writers...
Marvin Olasky The holy land was supposed to...
George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to...
George Orwell Serious sport is war minus the...
Marie Osmond This is a serious, serious...
Miranda Otto Young actors are serious about...
Jimmy Page I think it was that we...
Camille Paglia A serious problem in America...
Brad Paisley Even on the most serious...
Walter Pater And the fifteenth century was...
Ron Paul Justifying conscription to promote the...
Elizabeth Pena Sayles could pull a performance...
Li Peng In the spring and summer of...
Roger Penrose But I think it is a...
Martin Lewis Perl Going to school and working...
Martin Lewis Perl A parent being called to the...
Plato Love is a serious mental...
John Charles Polanyi Young people ask me if this...
Chaim Potok I think most serious writers...
Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who...
Steve Powers Anyone who relies exclusively on...
Priscilla Presley You know, I had my mother...
Robert Rainy The advent of a new religion...
Harold Ramis With both Caddyshack and Vacation...
Helen Reddy I've been in a serious...
Oliver Reed I have made many serious...
John C. Reilly Oh, absolutely, it felt more...
Frederick Reines Our home had many books due...
Ad Reinhardt Art is too serious to be...
Condoleezza Rice We've been a country that's...
Alan Rickman I'm a quite serious actor who...
Tim Robbins My father described me as the...
Pat Roberts Security for agriculture merits serious...
Pat Robertson If you look over the course...
Fred Rogers Play is often talked about as...
Will Rogers Do the best you can, and...
Will Rogers So let's be honest with...
Dana Rohrabacher There are many drugs that have...
Mike Rounds Being overweight and obesity are...
Karl Rove Cindy Sheehan is a clown...
Helen Rowland The hardest task in a girl's...
Helen Rowland The hardest task of a girl's...
Mark Ruffalo People say funny things all...
Donald Rumsfeld In politics, every day is...
Kurt Russell I wasn't really serious about...
Richard Russo It's no secret that in my...
Fred Saberhagen I finally decided one day...
Morley Safer The Bush Cabinet is quite...
Sallust He only seems to me to...
Adam Sandler Feels good to try, but playing...
Jim Sasser One congressman asked 'I just...
Marilyn vos Savant Know about the appeals process...
Jessica Savitch I very much wanted to be...
Sally Schneider I'm a serious eater and a...
Sally Schneider So many people think they need...
Klaus Schulze And of course, the musician...
Charles Schumer Giving up even an ounce of...
Jack Schwartz The Arab representatives and their...
Allyson Schwartz The serious crimes by the...
Albert Schweitzer Serious illness doesn't bother me...
Peter Scott The battalion, the whole battalion...
Campbell Scott I'm known as a kind of...
Steven Seagal I was born with a serious...
Anton Seidl I have often heard the...
Amartya Sen I have not had any serious...
Ayrton Senna It's going to be a season...
Jim Sensenbrenner Despite reforms in steroid control...
Donna Shalala I try to deal with my...
Donna Shalala I am interested in getting...
Garry shandling I think sometimes I should do...
Bill Shankly Some people think football is...
Natan Sharansky Of course, there can be...
Natan Sharansky It is important to remember...
George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be...
George Bernard Shaw Nothing is worth doing unless...
Robert Shea This whole phenomenon of the...
Robert Sheckley A lot of us don't want...
William Tecumseh Sherman War is too serious a matter...
Jenny Shipley The serious problems facing the...
Nigel Short Surely, serious problems can't be...
Josh Silver Like all of us, we have...
Rob Simmons Indictments of any kind are...
Carly Simon One of the things that has...
Isaac Bashevis Singer We write not only for children...
John Singleton I really took filmmaking very...
Barbara Smith Black women, whose experience is...
Tony Snow It serves notice that President...
John W. Snow We have a serious structural...
Olympia Snowe Most breast cancer-related deaths...
Susan Sontag I don't want to express...
Bruce Springsteen You can go from doing...
Lionel Stander I am a professional performer...
Philip Stanhope Women are only children of a...
Pamela Stephenson There seems to be this...
Bruce Sterling We may yet work up to...
Mark Stevens Shouldn't a great museum foster...
Oliver Stone I've been to war, and it's...
Madeleine Stowe I remember nearly having a fit...
Meryl Streep I need to go where people...
Gustave Stresemann Historians still often see the...
Josiah Strong The city has become a serious...
Bjarne Stroustrup However, when Java is promoted...
Theodore Sturgeon As far as hypnosis is...
Andy Summers It's been very hard for the...
Peter Sutcliffe I thought 'God, what have I...
Janet Suzman So we do have our exits...
David Suzuki Education has failed in a very...
Anne Sophie Swetchine Travel is the frivolous part...
Ice T AIDS is such a scary thing...
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand War is much too serious a...
Allen Tate Serious poetry deals with the...
Billy Tauzin New Orleans has to learn to...
Major Taylor I can hardly express in words...
Sachin Tendulkar I want to give my six...
Twyla Tharp I don't mean this, but I'm...
Bennie Thompson Sending our young men and...
Ken Thompson It is only the inadequacy of...
Ken Thompson Unauthorized access to computer systems...
Ken Thompson We tried to avoid, you know...
Hunter S. Thompson The trouble with Nixon is that...
Virgil Thomson I never learned to verbalize...
Henry David Thoreau Our inventions are wont to be...
Mac Thornberry I know of no serious proposals...
James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I...
Gene Tierney When I met Jack Kennedy, he...
Gene Tierney About my career I was serious...
Polly Toynbee Is anyone serious about the...
Lee Trevino I never played much golf as...
Leon Trotsky In a serious struggle there is...
Mao Tse-Tung There is a serious tendency...
Steven Tyler When that second airplane hit...
Blair Underwood When I doing dinner theater in...
Bobby Unser Yellow usually means it's not...
Peter Ustinov Comedy is simply a funny way...
Paul Valery Serious-minded people have few...
Thorstein Veblen The outcome of any serious...
Johnny Vegas I always feel like an...
Donatella Versace Fashion is not frivolous. I am...
Miroslav Vitous That was really so upsetting...
Jon Voight I was a guy who needed...
Sol Wachtler We cannot lightly allow the...
Derek Walcott Any serious attempt to try to...
Lech Walesa My country is in the grips...
Larry Wall If any ideology is so serious...
Henry A. Wallace The European brand of fascism...
Jim Wallis If the president is going to...
Zach Wamp Those are serious questions of...
Josiah Warren It goes to establish a just...
Ruby Wax I can't do anything too...
Kurt Weill I have never acknowledged the...
Kurt Weill I have never acknowledged the...
H. G. Wells In England we have come to...
Paul Wellstone The American polity is infected...
Eudora Welty I am a writer who came...
Eudora Welty All serious daring starts from...
Eudora Welty A sheltered life can be a...
Wim Wenders Many of the critics today get...
Randy West Also at the top of the...
Kanye West I'll say things that are...
Kim Weston If no one wants to jump...
Paul Weyrich The President has a short time...
Margaret J. Wheatley In this present culture, we...
Byron White The risk of racial prejudice...
Bryan White One time when somebody showed...
Eli Whitney I have now taken a serious...
Woodrow Wilson My own ideals for the...
Reese Witherspoon It's fun to do a comedy...
Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical...
Bob Woodward I think people are smart...
Bob Woodward I recently did the David...
Virginia Woolf The telephone, which interrupts the...
Frank Woolley In the old days we were...
John Woolman I knew I was going from...
Pope John XXIII It often happens that I wake...
William Butler Yeats I am still of opinion that...
Daniel Yergin I think the producers, for the...
Rick Yune It was tough to try to...
Dweezil Zappa While it is true that Frank...
Rob Zombie The hardest part was convincing...
David Zucker I think that came out of...
David Zucker I think we grew up thinking...
David Zucker Woody Allen has done some...



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