#serious

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#even #glamorous #going #house #how

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #challenge #culture #educational #inevitable

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. ↗

— William Congreve

#danger #dull #find #great #growing

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises. ↗

— Fred Upton

#affordable #care #costs #coverage #deliver

The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#become #career #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. ↗

— Claire Danes

#always #because #child #i #i always

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san ↗

— CLAMP

#life-lessons #serious #life

Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious ↗

— Harry Toh Jun Shen

#life #sad #serious #life