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I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it. -- Julian Barnes
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious. -- Elliott Erwitt
Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel. -- Umberto Eco
I am serious about not being serious -- Elliott Erwitt
Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else. -- Alexander Grothendieck
Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people. -- Manny Pacquiao
I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV! -- Marc Bolan
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes. -- Bruce Robinson
Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country. -- Rob Simmons
I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products. -- Jennifer Flavin
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is. -- Ja Rule
I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think. -- Jeffrey Jones
I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants. -- Jane Pauley
You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous. -- Vince Cable
I could have had my husband put me on a lot of TV shows every day, but I chose not to. I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. -- Jennifer Flavin
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
Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this. -- Kevin Eubanks
Yeah, I'm a physical kind of guy. I've always liked being physical. It takes a stuntman to really say, 'Look, we don't want you to do this. No, no, I'm serious, you're not going to do this' to get me not to do my stuff. -- Dominic Purcell
It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets. -- Whitfield Diffie
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I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical. -- Thom Browne
Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails. -- Cher
To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense. -- Wendell Berry
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. -- Peter Drucker
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit. -- Jaggi Vasudev

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