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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails. — Cher

Do you know what that means?" "They have three fewer ships?" Parks deadpanned. "Stop being an asshole, captain, I'm serious. — Todd Shryock

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian. — Moby

Sir James Jeans
Always says what he means
He is really perfectly serious
About the Universe being Mysterious. — E.C. Bentley

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor. — John Lithgow

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people. — Manny Pacquiao

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me. — Dee Dee Ramone

If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last. — Amy Tan

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. — Peter F. Drucker

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them. — Alice Eve

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. — Brigham Young

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious. — John Cleese

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help. — Maggie Stiefvater

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious. — John Coltrane

Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody. — Chelsea Handler

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it. — Julian Barnes

I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV! — Marc Bolan

The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy. — Lin Yutang

(On "Following") We've got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made. — Christopher J. Nolan

For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are. — Benoit B. Mandelbrot

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work. — David Shrigley

Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit. — Jaggi Vasudev

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious. — Joel Hodgson

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn

If you study a lot because you are worried that others will think badly of you for being ignorant and you'll feel stupid, this is a serious mistake. — Dogen

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. — Twyla Tharp

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics. — Rebel Wilson

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere. — John Quincy Adams

It's human nature to view life from our own reality.
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane. — Jaime Buckley

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious — Peter Ustinov

What is the world's problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been. — Paris Hilton

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious. — Lily Tomlin

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense. — Wendell Berry

The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. "Are you being serious?" Her face is stoic. "Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears. — Jessica Sorensen

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are. — Linda Morris

I do have this reputation for being a serious person. — Joni Mitchell

When are people finally going to get serious about being serious? — Leonard Ravenhill

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull. — Joseph Addison

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes. — Anne Rivers Siddons

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates — Jean-Claude Juncker

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious. — Elliott Erwitt

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn. — John Cleese

I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products. — Jennifer Flavin

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb

The sight of so many agitated and serious people made Margaret smile, but she reflected that they were paid to be serious, and enjoyed being agitated. — E. M. Forster

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped. — Oscar Wilde

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so? — Thomas Hardy

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it. — Graham Greene

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic. — Alan Rickman

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed. — Patricia Marx

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes. — Bruce Robinson

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. — William Congreve

One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys. — Andrew Marr

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer. — Tom Jones

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA. — Sam Kean