“It was fun figuring out the science of the world as much as we wanted to figure out, and then playing fast and loose in other places. Which we do with our show in general. One of the things we love about the BoJack Horseman show is that we can always fall back on, "It's a ridiculous cartoon." And it is! It's a serious, relationship-based grounded character tragedy, but it is also a ridiculous cartoon.” WorldCharacterFallFunSeriousTragedyRidiculousCartoonFall BackSerious Relationship Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg
“That's an incredibly serious thing if people think that the president of the United States can tell heads of law enforcement agencies, based on his own whim or his own personal preferences or friendships, that they should or should not pursue particular criminal cases against individuals. That's not how America works.” PeopleThinkingIndividualPresidentSeriousLaw Enforcement Author:Preet Bharara
“My goal is to maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons. I want that enforcement to be real. I want it to be serious. I want people to understand that gassing innocent people, delivering chemical weapons against children is not something we do. It's prohibited in active wars between countries. We certainly don't do it against kids. And we've got to stand up for that principle.” PeopleChildrenWarRealCountryKidsGoalSeriousInnocentBeing RealNorm Author:Barack Obama
“Somebody who opposes Trump is wound so tight, they're not funny people anyway, that they don't get his humor. They really believe when he tells these jokes that that's dead serious stuff. There's not enough laughter on the left. Even their comedians are angry. Their comedians, the humor they shoot for is all personal put-down kind of humor where it used to not be that way. But Trump's humor, even the stuff that's not subtle, they miss, they take it literally and are frightened to death by it. It's incredible.” PeopleBelieveKindEnoughMissingSeriousLaughterJokesIncrediblesWoundsComedianFunny People Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.” KindBookLiteratureSeriousCheatingPrintedBowling Author:Ricky Jay
“Trump has not masked who he is. Trump has not behaved like the Democrats do. He does not go out and camouflage. He doesn't present a side of him that isn't real. He doesn't lie to people about what he believes. Although he has broken a serious promise. And he's got some immigration people that voted for him that are a little angry about that. That must be mentioned. But other than that, Trump voters know Trump is who he is. He doesn't act, he doesn't put on a front, he doesn't make up things - as opposed to the Democrats who can't be honest about who they are.” PeopleBelieveRealLyingHonestSeriousBrokenPromiseDemocratImmigrationBeing Honest Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We don't have to be victims of the spiritual fall-out of the digital age. It does take some serious intentionality to combat the cultural compulsion for connection that surrounds us, but it's worth it.” AgeSpiritualSeriousVictimSurroundWorth It Author:Tricia Rhodes
“I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.” PeopleRealReasonHomeEnergyParentPartyCreativeSeriousSweetCollaborationIntrovert Author:Zoe Kazan
“I was 14, when I wanted to be an actor. My parents were basically like, "This is a very hard life, and you have to be really serious about it, and show us that you're serious about it. You can't drop out of school." They strongly encouraged me not to act professionally until I finished college, which I didn't. And I think they should have been horrified! It's a really hard life. I'd be really scared if I had a child who wanted to be an actor.” ThinkingChildrenSchoolParentCollegeSeriousScaredHard Life Author:Zoe Kazan
“Talent acquisition, knowledge transfer, generational diversity, and retention will continue to be serious concerns. I think the golden thread is equipping management to work with Millennials. Let's face it. We are going to see organizations needing to replace 40% to 60% of their workforce. Management has never been more important!” ThinkingImportantTalentSeriousDiversityConcernManagement Author:Chip Espinoza
“What we are is serious. And you see us in action, so it's not in personas. It's in actions and it's what we do. And that's why Russia was left on an island when it came to Syria. Everyone else isolated them with their connection with Bashar Assad and Iran.” ActionSeriousSyriaPersona Author:Nikki Haley
“I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country. Eighty percent of low-income people have no access to the civil justice system, meaning anything but criminal law.” PeopleCountryJusticeSeriousCrisisJustice SystemCriminal Law Author:Martha Minow
“Whether low-income people are dealing with access to veteran's benefits, or a protective order to guard against domestic violence, or a way to guard against the loss of their home due to foreclosure and unscrupulous behavior by mortgage providers, there's no way they can afford a lawyer. And that's a serious problem. Because that erodes respect for law, it erodes the prospects for justice.” PeopleProblemHomeJusticeLossViolenceSeriousBehaviorLawyerDomestic ViolenceMortgage Author:Martha Minow
“I understand and respect people who say they want to boycott the Trump brand. I also respect your right to buy his products. But what you miss is that no one in public office, Hilary or Trump should use that platform to profit themselves. In Trump's case there are serious concerns about the conflict of interest in his brand and business ownership. Do we really want a president who had products he can push while working for the American people?” PeoplePresidentInterestMissingSeriousConflictOfficeConcernOwnershipBoycottRespect People Author:Michelle Singletary
“The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying attention. It's time for us to really get serious about political education and about our own moral education in this moment, and to seize this opportunity to organize and be in deep dialogue with a whole lot of people who never even thought about being politically engaged or active before. There's real hope there and real opportunity.” PeopleRealMomentsPoliticalOpportunityAttentionMoralSeriousAgreeDialoguePay AttentionOrganize Author:Michelle Alexander
“This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter. If I were the media, I would be wary of using anything that came out of these document dumps which serves the purpose of a foreign power. But, at the very least, Americans have to discount this. This is an attempt to hijack and change American democracy by a foreign power. It can't be accepted.” TryingPurposeDemocracySeriousElectionAppearanceAccepted Author:Michael Gerson
“On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an unthinkable prospect. Furthermore, Trump's pursuit of Obama's programs of modernization of the nuclear forces poses extraordinary dangers. As we have recently learned, the modernized U.S. nuclear force is seriously fraying the slender thread on which survival is suspended.” WarActionDangerSeriousSurvivalProgramThreatExtraordinarySyriaConfrontationUnthinkableNuclear War Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play ball. I can't imagine a serious poet who would want to write or perform for most recent inauguration. I'd be very surprised if there were an inaugural poem, and I can't really imagine what that would be.” ThinkingWritingArtReasonImagineSeriousPoetInaugurationInaugural Author:Stephen Burt
“I think this book, Matthew Desmond's "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.", if you have a friend who is a public official, hand him or her this book. It's that important. And this book raises some serious questions about what kind of country do we want to be.” ThinkingKindImportantBookCountryPovertySerious Author:Daniel H. Pink
“What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.” BookInterestingSeriousTraditionCivil RightsComicComic BookGraphicCivil Rights MovementHomage Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Perhaps preachers today need to think about the assumptions that are common in their congregation - the plausibilities and comforting assurances - which may in themselves have biblical truth, but can easily become insurance policies waved around as immunity from any kind of serious evaluation of how we are living, whether we are truly following the Lord Jesus in the way he walked, whether we are doing righteousness and justice as God commanded.” ThinkingKindTodayJesusJusticeCommonLordPolicySeriousAssumptionRighteousnessPreacherBiblicalAssuranceComfortingDoing Right Author:Christopher J. H. Wright
“It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.” CountryPartySerious Author:Peggy Noonan
“I'm very, very serious about what I do. I think there are a lot of people out there sort of thinking it's anybody's game. You know, "You pick up a camera and you make a movie." My experiences over the years have taught me there's a lot more than that to making a film - there's also getting the film seen, and all kinds of complex realities.” PeopleThinkingKindRealityFilmSeriousAll Kinds Author:Melissa Leo
“I always try to be ironistic in everything I do. I love people who understand humor and who live through humor. So, of course, I was not too serious covering such things as Motörhead or "Black Magic Woman" by Santana. But I was serious enough about Led Zeppelin and the Celtic song "Wild Mountain Thyme." In my life, serious and humor are always together.” PeopleTryingEnoughTogetherSongBlackMagicSeriousMountainBlack Magic Author:Albert Kuvezin
“I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.” ChildrenRealityKidsFallSecretSituationSeriousLuckyMy FamilyWho You AreDivorceBeing TrueFalling ApartIntegrating Author:Patrick Somerville
“The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.” ThinkingFightingSpeakBrainSeriousTerrorist Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.” TryingSeriousBalanceSceneHumorous Author:Daniel Clowes
“I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue.” LaughingSeriousArguing Author:Stone Cold Steve Austin
“I think everybody who really wants to change things has to allow themselves to be angry in a constructive way, and you have to fully understand the thing you're trying to change. We really need to get serious about this now; there needs to be real, effective programs. I think there needs to be a little bit more strategy involved and a little more realism, to be pragmatic and realistic, looking at the way we as women contribute to the problem. Once the second half of the population stops doing it, it's going to end.” ThinkingTryingRealProblemSeriousProgramStrategyRealisticBeing RealPragmaticTrying To Change Author:Christina Ricci
“I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.” PeopleKindWishSeriousFitEvidenceFlyingDispassionate Author:Brian Eno
“People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much easier for people who are not terribly, badly off to lose hope and to be pessimistic. I suppose that when you are in a really serious situation, you have to be present, you have to think about it, there's not much scope for self-pity.” PeopleThinkingMomentsSituationGraceHumourSeriousExtraordinaryPessimisticResilientTribulation Author:Arundhati Roy
“Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.” KindFeelingsSpiritualJoyDesireSpiritualityCommunityPleasurePathDangerSeriousOvercomingSelfishIndulgeBeing SelfishSomber Author:Charles Eisenstein
“I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U.S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.” KindHomeLanguageParentEffortBrainAcceptingSeriousChineseTrusted Author:Leroy Chiao
“Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens is, you're working on a common project in a very visible light and so, you're motivated to not have conflicts with each other in other areas. And bringing up China is a good example. In the early '90's, China got serious about wanting to launch astronauts into space and they were actually quite successful in launching many communication satellites. They went ahead and in 2003 they launched their first astronaut into space.” CountryCommonSuccessfulSeriousCommunicationConflictRelationFlightExplorationMotivatedAstronautSpace Exploration Author:Leroy Chiao
“Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist ones - would reduce his/her domain of influence to a single tradition. Furthermore, historical breaks are so common and large in Europe that there are ruptures in every tradition which then connect the same generations across national borders. Younger Eastern European writers, for instance, have more in common with other writers of the same age in Europe, than with the previous, communist-era generations in their own countries.” CountryAgeCommonBreakInfluenceSeriousTraditionHistoricalEastern Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“There has at least been a serious effort on the Turkish side to prevent people from setting off for Europe. Recently, only about 100 people have been arriving in Greece per day. Last year, it was several thousand daily at times. This effort can, however, also very quickly dwindle.” PeopleEffortSeriousGreeceTurkish Author:Sebastian Kurz
“A song can't be completely serious if you rhyme melodic with alcoholic.” SongSeriousRhyme Author:Jarvis Cocker
“In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs, looking desperately for some hope things would change. Religion was forbidden beginning in 1968, when I was born. So my communication with them was limited to issues of everyday life, which were issues of survival.” TryingPoliticalSeriousCommunicationSurvivalMy FamilyEverydayEveryday LifeForbiddenSmall Talk Author:Luljeta Lleshanaku
“Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government.” DoneWishImagineSeriousBizarrePatheticAmerican GovernmentSilliness Author:Barney Frank
“I'm an actor, but it sort of has to feel serious on a different level. I have to be happy with the choices I make now; it can't just be in hopes of creating a better future for myself. It has to bring me fulfillment. I have to find a way to be happy today.” DifferentTodayChoicesSeriousFulfillment Author:Francois Arnaud
“If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.” TakenSerious Author:D.A. Wallach
“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.” PeopleThinkingWholeCultureSeriousOughtHealthySmartGunIntelligenceDiscussionSmokingYoutubeSmart PeopleProliferationReally SmartCelebrity Culture Author:Stephen King
“I think there's a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where they can no longer support it. They are not powerful enough to do it anymore because there is not enough serious belief in them.” ThinkingEnoughBeliefPowerfulSupportSerious Author:James Toback
“I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.” IfsThinkingNeedsWritingProblemBigsFansSeriousBotherPillsPsychoanalysis Author:Stephen King
“I seek a diverse spectrum of roles. If I just was in a large-budget feature for a younger audience, then I want to find a smaller, more character-driven piece that might be for a more mature audience. Or if I'm playing a goofier character, then maybe I want to go play a serious, psychopathic character. But at the same time, it's usually a case-by-case basis where I'm judging the merit of a role by the script I'm given, and it usually has less to do with the larger framework and more to do with how the part personally appeals to me in that moment.” MomentsCharacterAudienceSeriousJudgingMatureDiversePsychopathic Author:Cameron Monaghan
“I think a lot of people don't take you seriously if they hear it's a video-game-based movie, and a lot of press people don't write about you. With BloodRayne, a lot of serious newspaper people didn't actually even see the movie. They went online to see other reviews, and then wrote their own. I think comic-book-based movies have a better image. We see it with 300, Sin City, Spider-Man - they are A-list features, and video-game movies are B-list.” PeopleThinkingWritingSinSeriousOnline Author:Uwe Boll
“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.” WorldTryingPlayCultureSeriousEconomicsEntertainmentManufacturing Author:Stephen King
“I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, "How can you have such failures in your films?" Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.” GivingFilmComedySeriousDistancePainful Author:Alexander Payne
“I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love doing comedies now. I don't like a lot of those movies now, but I thought those were movies that I could do real, serious performances in.” RealActingComedyChangedSerious Author:James Franco