#serious

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. ↗

— George Gilder

#any #families #first #male #poor

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#evidence #exists #favor #idea #serious

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that. ↗

— Dizzy Gillespie

#get #men #more #music #serious

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#also #before #camera #ceremony #etc

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#serious #witty #you

People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

#must #people #seriously #take #then

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games. ↗

— Taufik Hidayat

#badminton #dropped #federation #format #games

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#cambridge #committed #community #days #derek

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#baton #business #first #greatest #ian

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#develop #fractured #fragile #funny #kid