Quotes About Serious

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.

We cannot have people leaking classified information at any level, and we certainly take that very seriously and would not ignore that.

I know that charges of plagiarism are serious.

Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

Some players out there don't really interact with the crowd - they're really serious - but I think it's part of my personality as well. I go out there, and I like to entertain. I like to put on a bit of a show.

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

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

Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech laced with a bit of humor.

People say, 'When are you going to do serious stuff?' I look at them as though they were crazy. My serious stuff is my comedy. That's how I make my points.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem.

We need a government that takes climate change seriously, one that doesn't shunt it to the side-lines.

We're taking climate change seriously. But it's not the only environmental issue that we face as a planet.

I believe that man does have an impact on the climate, that CO2 has an impact on the climate, and we do take that seriously.

I take my music very serious. I don't call myself a comedian.

I'm not a comedian.

I am not a comedian.