Serious Quotes

• I think the people like myself who are in the center ground of politics and who think that center left and center right can cooperate and work together. Who don't like this sort of insurgent populism because we think it's not really going to deliver for the people, I think there's a big responsibility on us in the center to get our act together. And to work out radical but serious solutions to the problems people face.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Together
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.

  

  William Gibson
  • Interesting
  • Problem
  • Drug

• On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Wife
  • Eating
  • Subjects

• As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.

  

  Nikki S. Lee
  • Fashion
  • Serious
  • Shallowness

• Nobody says, 'Yeah, I'd like to set myself up for some serious criticism!' And yet, the only way to be remarkable is to do just that.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Serious
  • Criticism
  • Remarkable

• It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • Serious

• I was always excited by the idea of having my own company, but models are rarely serious when they venture off into something else, be it acting, singing, or starting their own business.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Business
  • Singing
  • Serious

• I have a serious girls’ night question for you,” said Kami. “I know you’re new to this, but I will require an answer quickly. Are you prepared to eat at least five éclairs tonight?

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Answers

• I'm an Academy Award winner. I'm serious.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Serious
  • Winner
  • Academy Awards

• 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!

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Important
  • Talent
  • Management

• I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Serious
  • Husband

• It's just been fun. We're taking our live shows a lot more serious.

  

  Steve Harwell
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Live Show

• It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Home
  • Difficult

• The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Important
  • Simple

• I've never been in the position where that conversation is a serious conversation before the movie even comes out. On one side of it, that's so great because you've got such great potential. The other side of that is that there's a level of pressure. Now, that clearly means that there's an expectation level, from the studio side, potentially from the audience's side, and from our side.

  

  Will Packer
  • Conversation
  • Pressure
  • Expectations

• I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Athlete

• Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Joy

• Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation.

  

  Lynn Good
  • Power
  • Serious

• When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject - if I have a serious interest in it.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Serious

• If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.

  

  Geno Auriemma
  • Trying
  • Player
  • Coaching

• There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Serious
  • Be

• Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Honest
  • Meetings

• You have to raise $100 million, probably, to be serious.

  

  Michael Beschloss
  • Serious
  • Millions
  • Raises

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