#serious

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#become #category #difficult #getting #more

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#expect #i #me #more #people

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#deciding #divorced #gay #gay marriage #get

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#aims #always #around #because #comedy

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious. ↗

— Larry Wall

#doing #fun #have fun #ideology #probably

I always wanted to be a serious journalist. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#i #i always #journalist #serious #wanted

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart. ↗

— Max Weinberg

#acting #bits #casual #comedy #deeply

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. ↗

— Kurt Weill

#bad #between #difference #good #good music

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money. ↗

— Randy West

#also #appearance #between #competition #dawn