I was very serious about being a priest, twice in my life. Almost joined the Montfort Seminary after I graduated from high school. Almost went back in the seminary during college.
I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.
We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.
Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.
There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.
I simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously.
I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?
I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.
We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.
I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.
With so many serious issues and responsibilities before the United States Senate, I think New York needs an independent senator who thinks for herself, not someone who just rubberstamps the Obama agenda or checks with Chuck Schumer and says, 'Me too.'
My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.
We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.
I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'
