Serious Discussion Quotes

Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.

The Populist platform is almost too absurd to merit serious discussion.

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.

Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.

I don't get the conga line started. I'm not a great choice if the goal of the evening is just a celebration. But if we're going to talk about what's been going on lately, then I can bring something to the table.

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

You have to be careful with fans, they'll turn on you. They turn quick. Twitter can go dark fast. If you talk about something serious on Twitter, you better be ready. If you try to pull out real facts or talk about political opinions or something religious, forget it. Like if people asked me who I was voting for, you couldn't touch that one.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

State of the Culture' is more mature content. We want to go as deep as we can on whatever the subject matter is, we're not there to joke.

I feel like Vertigo is a place to have an adult discussion for adult readers.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.

I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me.

If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.

There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

We need to get around a table, have a serious discussion about the holistic problems in our immigration system, and craft a common-sense solution.