Seriousness Quotes - Page 12

• The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Minorities, Moral

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences between party philosophies and prepared the ground for 2016.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Philosophy, Party, Differences

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• The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart’s jewel, is Mendelssohn’s.

  Joseph Joachim

  Heart, Jewels, Seductive

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• From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

  Georg Solti

  Essentials, Desperate

  "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.

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• For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Icons, Dating, Deployment

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• Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

  Ralph Merkle

  People, Population, Today

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• In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

  Tim Duncan

  Strange, Should, Difficult

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• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  Hal Sparks

  Style, Yang, Study

  "Comedian Hal Sparks on love and pot" by Jarrett Bellini, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2011.

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• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  Adam Gopnik

  Eerie, Space, Long

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• But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

  Roger Penrose

  Beauty, Pregnancy, Thinking

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Since karate is a martial art, you must practice with the utmost seriousness from the very beginning.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Practice, Karate

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.43, Kodansha International

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• I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

  Nia Long

  Children, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I understand the seriousness of concussions.

  Peyton Manning

  Concussions

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• Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.

  Milton Friedman

  Fighting, Blow, Law

  "Tyranny of the status quo".

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• We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Self, Long, Effort

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• It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

  Phil Klay

  People, Asking, Moral

  "In 'Redeployment,' Former Marine Explores The Challenges Of Coming Home". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 20, 2015.

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• Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness

  Rajneesh

  Sickness, Playfulness, Pure

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• Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fashion, Art, Real

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• Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Humorous, Years

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• We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.

  Laura Bush

  Heart, Needs, Disease

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• Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

  Grayson Perry

  Artist, Tactics, These Days

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• The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States.

  John J. Pershing

  Military, War, Men

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• Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Order, Risk

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• Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Mean, Past, Composer

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• We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many do not want to even think about it... Many people believe the change that has taken place in recent decades was set in motion by the emancipation of women. But this argument is not valid, it is an insult, a form of misogyny.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

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