“All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.” ThinkingMenYearsAmericaSpeakGivenBlackMy OwnResultsFourSeriousExerciseCourtInjusticeJailChicagoFour YearsPeersBehalfInabilityJuryCourt System Author:Bobby Seale
“When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.” YoungGamesWinningFunSeriousBasketballCourtI RealizedHaving FunBasketball Game Author:Carmelo Anthony
“There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.” SeriousPerceptionCourtErasComedianJesterCourt JesterFalse Perception Author:Jim Gaffigan
“In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.” ThinkingWayNeedsKindSongEnergySeriousCourtMuseUrgency Author:James Taylor
“An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.” MindLooksStatesShowsLastsJusticeSeriousBirthRegardTablesCourtMeetingsCloudsEnvyGravesDistinctionGamblingMelancholyAlliancesAssemblyAgitateSolicitudeRancor Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.” ResultsMistakeSeriousDemandConstitutionAgreeCourtIncludingGrantedAbortionScholarFramers Author:Ronald Reagan
“[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” ThinkingWellsProblemCertainChoicesForceNationsRolesRightsViolenceSecurityPolicySeriousPrideGunStandingArmyPoliceTablesCourtAmendmentsSupreme CourtMeltingSecond AmendmentGun ViolenceConstitutional RightsPolice ForceSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticePersonal Security Author:Antonin Scalia
“Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.” MenFunnyFilmCoursesFoundStrangeSeriousJokesCourtGetting OlderCharlieAmusingHitchcockChaplinFunny MenMacabreSerious Man Author:Tippi Hedren
“I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.” ChildrenStatesKidsSchoolLawUnitedUnited StatesFiveRiskSeriousHusbandTaxesDegreesCourtRaisedLawyerReformPostsMy HusbandMaryScholarshipFoster ChildrenCharterEducation ReformDoctoratesCharter SchoolsFederal Taxes Author:Michele Bachmann
“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.” GuyMagicCrazySeriousBasketballCourtBreatheIntenseBasketball Court Author:Magic Johnson