It seems silly, but it mattered to Gord Downie. I don't know if I necessarily felt like it had to be one or the other, but he really wanted that engagement: "If you think it should be 'the' then tell me why it should be 'the. ' " 'Uh, okay, well. . . ' He was really serious.
Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T. M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.
The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue.
I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.
The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.
This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion,. . This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it. '.
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.
The best way to accomplish serious design. . . is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.
You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.
But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.
I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
Whoa," Connor Stoll said. "Back up. Zoom in right there. " "What?" Annabeth said nervously. "You see invaders?" "No, right there—Dylan's Candy Bar. " Connor grinned at his brother. "Dude, it's open. And everyone is asleep. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Connor!" Katie Gardner scolded. She sounded like her mother, Demeter. "This is serious. You are not going to loot a candy store in the middle of a war!" "Sorry," Connor muttered, but he didn't sound very ashamed.
I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.
If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.
I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.
Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.