#serious

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#could #crisis #go #i #mean

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#any #because #college #college student #credit

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#dreams #follow #follow your dreams #happens #i

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#businessperson #effort #generally #i #jobs

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. ↗

— LL Cool J

#am #different #different things #enjoy #i

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

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#finds #happens #language #more #oneself

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#constantly #get #government #irrelevant #most

I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all. ↗

— Mike Judge

#i #movie #serious #think #too