Serious Quotes

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Person, Means, Artist

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
Jewel

Different, Sometimes, Times

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
Magic Johnson

Crazy, Basketball, Lives

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

History, Down, Tell

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
Jello Biafra

Country, Living, Getting

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry Adams

Power, Energy, Facts

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
Cameron Diaz

Business, Fun, End

AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
Ice T

Happen, Won, Scary

Serious journalism need not be solemn.
Russell Baker

Journalism, Solemn

In the restaurant it's much more serious.
Emeril Lagasse

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
Lech Walesa

Crisis, Help, May

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
Susan Sontag

Work, Interested, Says

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
Twyla Tharp

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
Jay Leno

Liberty, Problem, Getting

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
Christopher Walken

Funny, True, Sometimes

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Zedong

Capitalism, Among, Toward

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.
Tommy Chong

Good, Crime, Boy

I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.
Eliot Spitzer

Time, Around, American

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
June Jordan

Truth, Deep, Himself

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
J. C. Watts

Political, Single, Trying

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
J. C. Watts

Black, Made, Decisions

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.
Steven Tyler

Thinking, Second, Hit

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

Cool, Fun, Movie

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Truman Capote

True, End, Single

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
Natalie Portman

Hard, Different, Wanted

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.
Bob Woodward

Food, Smart, Fight

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
LL Cool J

Important, Different, Enjoy

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
LL Cool J

Change, Mind, Important

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.
LL Cool J

Time, Movies, Cool

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