Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Now everybody I suppose is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

My dreams for the future are simple: work a happy healthy family a lovely long motorcycle ride and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography 'Why Not the Best? ' published in 1975.

When I was a kid I wanted to be serious like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs or you're not.

I know it sounds corny but when you follow your dreams it happens. And if it's music take it seriously.

I am a dreamer. Seriously I'm living on another planet.

Uh I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But uh I'm lucky I was just lucky that's all.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know on the Austin things we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one we thought a lot about it and what could go in.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design and love when things are beautiful.

Though I am a Catholic a professing one I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

I mean death is a serious thing certainly not to be sneezed at.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death reincarnation and karma it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you it's much more serious than that.