#serious

Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#after #america #australians #before #big

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#both #contributions #criticism #feel #his

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform. ↗

— Mike Farrell

#continuing #dreams #family #future #happy

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#anything #become #been #defect #else

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon. ↗

— Walid Jumblatt

#camps #groups #imposing #lebanon #operating

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#difficulties #economic #future #government #isolation

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#assertion #authority #clinton #constitutional #directive

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good. ↗

— Paul Kane

#honest #honest person #i #intimate #many

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cloning #interested #must #preventing #process

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #man