Serious Issues Quotes:

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

- Bill Nye

topic: Thinking, Issues, Environmental, Environmental Issues, Serious Issues

You think that sense of humor goes as far as our ideology. I think that ultimately, we have we have very interesting reactions on our show. People are constantly saying, "I love your-your show is so funny, until you made a joke about global warming, which is a serious issue, and I can't believe you did that. And I am never watching your show again."

- Jon Stewart

source: Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

topic: Believe, Love You, Thinking, Serious Issues

The House GOP continues to fail to address the real & serious issues thatthousands of families face each day.

- Mazie Hirono

topic: Real, Issues, House, Gop, Serious Issues

[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

- Lisa Loomer

topic: Issues, People, Crafts, Serious Issues, Subversive

We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.

- Karrine Steffans

topic: Mother, Dad, Father, Black Boy, Serious Issues

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Smart, Fighting, Thinking, Serious Issues

The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.

- Vince Cable

topic: Issues, Government, Feelings, Tackling, Serious Issues

I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It`s a serious issue! I`ve been very late for some serious gigs because of it!

- Jesse McCartney

topic: Mom, Hard Times, Issues, Serious Issues

In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of ***** is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.

- John Paul Stevens

topic: Marijuana, Expression, Issues, Serious Issues

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

- Mary Landrieu

topic: Country, Issues, Attention, Insurance Rate, Malpractice

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

- George Michael

topic: Confidence, Song, Views, Serious Issues

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Silly, Issues, Sound Bites, Trivial Things

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

- Wendy Wasserstein

topic: Happiness, Self, Color, Self Loathing, Emotional Balance

There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

- David Rockefeller

topic: Power, Thinking, Issues, Serious Issues

You're right, he's a killer," you said. "A rooster with some serious issues.

- Lucy Christopher

topic: Issues, Roosters, Killers, Serious Issues

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.

- Donald Miller

source: Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Fighting, Issues, Want, 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.

- Mena Suvari

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Eye, Issues, People, Public Eye, Serious Issues

Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.

- Lester R. Brown

topic: Oil, Issues, Water, Irrigation, Food Production

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

- Roger Penrose

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

topic: Beauty, Pregnancy, Thinking, Platonic, Serious Issues

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

- Kim Campbell

topic: Issues, Serious, Election, Serious Issues

I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.

- Katharine Hayhoe

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Serious Issues

It is true that veganism is a serious issue, but there should be fun involved. Why do anything if it doesn't bring some joy at the end of the day?

- Sharon Gannon

topic: Fun, Issues, Joy, Serious Issues

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Issues, Serious, Sense Of Humor, Assange, Serious Issues

Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.

- Rob Lowe

source: "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

topic: Growing Up, Real, Crazy, Blurry, Fact And Fiction

Even talking about serious issues - it's hard to fit in anything around calling a baseball game.

- Joe Buck

source: Source: thebiglead.com

topic: Serious Issues

I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.

- Eddie Glaude

source: Source: www.democracynow.org

topic: Thinking, Issues, America, Serious Issues

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Thinking, Issues, People, Serious Issues

Thanks to the European Union, Ireland has a much more open climate of discussion and debate, as you can see in the media. It means that we are a more questioning society, perhaps more honestly prepared to address serious issues and problems, more open to the idea that different viewpoints should be heard and respected.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Mean, Media, Ideas, Serious Issues

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

- Dalia Mogahed

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Issues, Want, Serious, Serious Issues

To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and choose today to take our stand on the moral issues which threaten us.

- Nathan Eldon Tanner

topic: Issues, Community, Example, Moral Issues, Serious Issues

I've generally gotten negative feedback from men who don't understand and don't find street harassment to be a serious issue. I've also gotten a lot of responses from women who are appreciative and thankful for the project; who relate to it who are passionate about it.

- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

topic: Men, Issues, Negative, Street Harassment, Serious Issues

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

- George H. W. Bush

topic: Issues, Guy, Political, Serious Issues

The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.

- Leo Strauss

topic: Simple, Men, Issues, Assertion, Serious Issues

According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

- Leo Strauss

source: "Natural Right and History". Book by Leo Strauss, 1953.

topic: Wise, Ignorance, Issues, Social Science, Soundness

Most young people now are very vulnerable as to what the American film aficionados are going to say. They care too much about a system that has no room for them. It's really a serious issue for me, because to me it's, how do I survive beyond a film that was disgraced or praised?

- Haile Gerima

topic: Issues, People, Care, Caring Too Much, 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.

- Kyle Dunnigan

topic: Song, Writing, Thinking, Natural Things, Serious Issues

The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

- Dallas Willard

topic: Jesus, Teaching, Taken, Contemporary Life, Serious Issues

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

- Johnny Carson

source: Source: www.alex-haley.com

topic: Thoughtful, Issues, Finding Yourself, Classifying, Serious Issues

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

- Randy Jackson

topic: Issues, Becoming, Serious, Serious Issues

I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Issues, Light, Sides, Frivolous, Serious Issues