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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
Some people think a boxer is a gloomy guy with this heavy brow who always has to be serious. But why can't you laugh a bit, make a joke?
When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.
I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.
If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.
Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.
I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.
Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.
Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.
A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
I always say this: If you a dude texts you after 2 a.m. and you reply, then you will never get called at 8 p.m. He won't take you serious.
You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.
I did theater for fun, and I didn't really think it was anything serious. I met a lot of kids through it, and it was pretty social for me.
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.
You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
'Dat $tick' was the first song I tried to be serious on. Then I thought, Wow, what if I really did this seriously? How dope would that be?'
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries - to their feet or their knees or their backs.
Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.
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.
I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.