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One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
by Bryan White (Musician, American , born in 1974) keywords: asked, dress, funny, her, joke, knew, marry, never, pretty, serious, she, showed, somebody, time, up , wedding The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
by Byron White (Judge, American , born in 1916) keywords: capital, complete, death, especially, finality, infecting, light, prejudice, proceeding, racial, risk, sentence, sentencing , serious I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
by Eli Whitney (Inventor, American , born in 1765) keywords: any, back, fear, given, go, greater, late, man, myself, now, perform, power, serious, taken, task, too , upon My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
by Woodrow Wilson (President, American , born in 1856) keywords: democracy, genuine, go, ideals, indeed, own, scholarship, seem, serious, these, those, together, two , university It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
by Reese Witherspoon (Actor, American , born in 1976) keywords: comedy, drama, fun, head, hit, hook, into, lead, movie, over, serious, them, then , watching A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher, Austrian , born in 1889) keywords: consisting, could, entirely, good, jokes, philosophical, serious, work , written I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: bit, book, caught, david, did, get, guard, joke, jokes, journalists, letterman, little, made, more, much, off, recently, serious, show, shows, some, than , very I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: around, each, enough, fight, food, issue, journalists, know, other, out, reporting, scream, serious, shows, sit, smart, sort, these, think, versus, watching, where , yell The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: conversations, cuts, most, observations, own, romance, serious, short, telephone, weighty , which In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
by Frank Woolley (Athlete, English , born in 1887) keywords: cricket, days, educated, far, more, now, old, probably, serious, than, way , were I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
by John Woolman (Clergyman, American , born in 1720) keywords: christ, flock, going, greatest, had, hence, knew, pleasure, reflections, resolution, return, serious, uneasy, vanities, were , youthful I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: am, dead, interest, least, mood, only, opinion, serious, sex, still, studious, topics , two I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.
by Daniel Yergin (Author, American , born in 1947) keywords: afford, also, because, create, down, economy, know, most, now, only, part, prices, problems, producers, right, road, see, serious, shock, shocks, them, think, very, want, will, world , would It was tough to try to be serious in front of Halle Berry and Pierce Brosnan with all this stuff in my face. There's never been a character that's looked this extreme.
by Rick Yune (Actor, American , born in 1971) keywords: been, berry, character, extreme, face, front, halle, looked, never, pierce, serious, stuff, tough , try While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
by Dweezil Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1969) keywords: also, complex, composing, fantastic, frank, great, had, handful, his, humor, learn, lot, memory, most, music, only, patience, pieces, play, players, reality, requires, sense, serious, skilled, takes, true, very , while In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
by Panayiotis Zavos (Scientist, Greek , born in 1944) keywords: achieve, ambition, because, bodies, correctly, dead, does, easy, executing, find, future, get, help, intend, kind, out, serious, something, step, technique, thing, things, very, will , work I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.
by David Zucker (Director, American , born in 1947) keywords: came, cockpit, funny, guys, hayden, hour, movie, movies, out, pretty, serious, sterling, think, those, time, watch, watching , zero I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.
by David Zucker (Director, American , born in 1947) keywords: always, brothers, funniest, grew, hour, inspired, laugh, liked, made, marx, movies, old, serious, thing, things, think, thinking, tv, up, us, were , zero Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!
by David Zucker (Director, American , born in 1947) keywords: allen, best, big, crimes, currently, done, excellent, fish, his, misdemeanors, movie, movies, overlooked, really, serious, some, think, too, very , woody
