Serious Quotes

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Norm MacDonald

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Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Helen Clark

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How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Christian Bale

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Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women.

Elvis Mitchell

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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Felix Adler

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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

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One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.

Richard Francis Burton

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In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

Ismail Haniyeh

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You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

Jimmy Smits

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I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Colman Domingo

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Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

David Remnick

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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Carla Bley

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Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Robert Fitzgerald

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But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

Rem Koolhaas

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The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Helen Rowland

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I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Jim Carrey

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Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Clive Thompson

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I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

David Cross

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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

Cameron Russell

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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

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Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

Marie Rutkoski

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My father looked like this serious guy but was actually a very kind person.

Harshvardhan Rane

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Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.

Jerry Saltz

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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