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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong
Capitalism
Tendency
Toward
Well-To-Do
Serious
Among
Peasants
I was always the serious kid.
Margarita Levieva
Kid
Always
Serious
Immigrants are not the real problem. The real problem is much more serious: intolerance and hatred of indigenous ethnic groups. You can prohibit immigration, but what can you do about non-Russian ethnic groups living in their native territories in Russia?
Margarita Simonyan
You
Problem
Immigration
Hatred
Living
Prohibit
Intolerance
Immigrants
About
Russia
Indigenous
More
Territories
Real
Real Problem
Native
Much
Ethnic
Ethnic Groups
Groups
Serious
When I was growing up, my family was serious about manners. I always wanted to put my elbow on the table to prop my head up. I didn't understand how other people looked awake. My head felt so heavy after the whole day.
Margherita Missoni
Day
Family
People
Manners
Other
Table
Prop
About
Put
Head
Looked
Felt
Understand
Always
How
Up
Heavy
Wanted
After
Elbow
Whole
Awake
Serious
Growing
Growing Up
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
Maria Bamford
Time
People
Tell
Pretty
Comedians
Make
As Far As
Far
Fun
Serious
Why
Things
I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
Maria Semple
Writing
Walk
Running
Only
Hiking
Hours
Couple
Always
Go
Then
Really
Hard
Serious
For me, 'Angels in America' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is struggling with serious illness or having to face their own demise. All of the characters face some form of destruction in themselves.
Marianne Elliott
Me
Destruction
Face
Own
AIDS
Characters
Some
About
Angels
Having
Struggling
Demise
Metaphor
America
Anybody
Form
Themselves
Really
Who
Illness
Serious
This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.
Marie Osmond
You
Yourself
Baby
Bad
Hurting
Postpartum
Also
Condition
End
Up
Get
Where
So-Called
Literally
Either
Psychosis
Serious
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.
Mariella Frostrup
People
Other
Enough
Enough People
Rushing
Mental
More
Couch
Without
Issues
Than
Really
Help
Therapist
Who
Professional
Serious
Toms
Need
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
Marilynne Robinson
Education
Me
Writing
Despair
Those
Has-Been
Direction
Most
Nonfiction
Been
Years
Even
Serious
Kept
I feel like the character of Han Solo is irreverent. A very serious, precious story about Han Solo would not be that enjoyable.
Marjorie Liu
Character
Solo
Would
About
Feel
Like
Very
Precious
Irreverent
Story
Serious
Enjoyable
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
Mark Dayton
Service
Health
Women
Mental Health
Benefits
Problems
Care
Men
Men And Women
Soldiers
Physical
Mental
Unconscionable
Long-Term
Health Care
Returning
Health Problems
Limited
Due
Iraq
Brave
Brave Men
Afghanistan
Available
Cut
Many
Serious
Suffer
In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
Mark Edwards
Music
Time
Myself
Giving
Living
Other
Musical
Finding
About
Equipment
Making
Making A Living
Than
Decade
Get
Bank
Mid
After
Realized
Full
Full-Time
Serious
Assets
Thing
Needed
When I was 21, I was in a pretty serious band, and we almost got signed - went to New York, showcased, all that - but didn't end up getting signed, and we broke up. I went back to the drawing board; I really took a hit from that whole experience.
Mark Foster
Experience
Band
Took
Back
Drawing
Broke
Signed
Pretty
Almost
New
Got
End
Up
Hit
York
Getting
New York
Board
Really
Whole
Serious
I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.
Mark Goddard
Today
Family
Me
Space
Robot
Lost
Laugh
Would
Stayed
Take
He
Jonathan
Performance
Adventures
Liked
Makes
Still
His
Anything
Serious
Away
Watch
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.
Mark Haddon
Life
You
Book
Too Much
Laughter
Think
Too
Laugh
Horror
Perform
Reaction
Make
Readers
Genuine
Tradition
Whereas
Which
Much
Really
Serious
Functions
Britain
Wrestling went from being sometimes comical to very serious, and there was a lot of depth regarding the vastness in which people performed.
Mark Henry
People
Sometimes
Wrestling
Vastness
Performed
Lot
Very
Being
Regarding
Which
Depth
Serious
Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?
Mark Stevens
Great
Before
Else
Seeing
Foster
Serious
Museum
It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
Ups And Downs
Some
Had
Journeys
Like
Very
Ups
Even
Serious
Downs
Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was serious about it and was subsequently trained by people like Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan.
Martin Landau
People
About
Only
Had
Performed
Like
Couple
Although
Always
Lee
Trained
Subsequently
Wanted
Act
Kazan
Serious
Plays
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.
Martin Lewis Perl
School
Police
Station
Parent
Had
Robbed
Police Station
Because
Child
Bank
Being
Serious
I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.
Martin McGuinness
Good
Vote
Think
Terms
Undermining
Does
Friday
Represent
Happening
Brexit
Agreement
Serious
Now
Good Friday
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
Martin Parr
Work
You
Photography
Obliged
Color
Were
Snapshot
Commercial
Going
Serious
Palette
Britain
At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.
Martine Syms
Good
Opportunities
Black
Men
Ali
Types
Those
Some
Point
Ray
Mostly
Became
Transcend
Available
Movies
Icon
Serious
Actor
Play
As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.
Marvin Hamlisch
Work
Funny
Me
You
People
Seriously
Will
Nervous
Energy
Down
Older
High
Entertaining
See
Composer
Slowing
Slowly
Taken
Calming
Surely
Yes
Quieter
Get
Listen
Just
Against
Serious
Desire
The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
Marvin Olasky
Single
Few
Stay
Wrapper
Minutes
More
Supposed
Equivalent
Than
Candy
Which
Land
Holy
Disneyland
Holy Land
Ground
Serious
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