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• My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn’t cry coming in. There’s a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

  Foxy Brown

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  Tags in Missed, Serious, Difference, Believe

• Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

  Travis Barker

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• We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner – by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

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  Tags in Serious, Treated

• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  Fidel Castro

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  Tags in Serious, System, World

• I’ve just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

  Syd Barrett

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• Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn’t get serious with people. They don’t expect it from you, and they don’t want to see it. You’re not entitled to be serious, you’re a clown.

  Fanny Brice

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  Tags in People, Expect, Person, Serious

• I was a sort of serious little dude – snobby.

  Joseph Gordon Levitt

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  Tags in Serious

• I never intended to only do dark, serious things.

  Joseph Gordon Levitt

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  Tags in Intended, Serious

• A guy that’s really serious about you, he’s gotta be talking to you, he’s gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That’s how we are.

  Steve Harvey

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  Tags in Really, Serious

• I’m at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the ’80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I’m not the kind of actor that insists that unless you’re doing a serious dramatic role, you’re not acting.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Kind, Dramatic, Serious

• I am a serious guy.

  Stefano Gabbana

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  Tags in Serious

• But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

  George H. W. Bush

  Topics in History

  Tags in Politician, Serious, Issues
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  Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

  Elisha Cuthbert

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  Tags in Serious, Possible

• When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

  Steve Martin

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  Tags in Everything, Serious

• Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

  George Catlett Marshall

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  Tags in Serious, Passive, Given

• I have serious concerns about whether it’s prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we’re sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

  Timothy Peter Johnson

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Serious

• 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

  Topics in Country, History

  Tags in Fortunate, Serious

• We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

  Tim Bishop

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  Tags in Serious

• The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

  Thorstein Veblen

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• I look more Indian when I’m serious.

  Sherman Alexie

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