Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.

If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I'm not.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I have always 'styled' myself, but when I got pregnant with KJ and my body was changing monthly, I needed some serious help LOL.

The people who get up earliest in the morning have the highest propensity to vote UKIP. I'm being absolutely serious about that.

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.

Hillary Clinton is using a private server for - where classified information go by. This is a - this is a serious administration?

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious. In the state of Missouri, they are criminal - these are criminal allegations.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

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

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

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