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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
— Adam Lambert
Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
— Oscar Wilde
Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.
— Guido Palau
Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
— Vicki Lawrence
Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.
— Michelle Ryan
I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.
— Elizabeth Aston
Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
— Alfie Kohn
[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.
— Camille Paglia
Let us make war on the phrase 'violence doesn't solve anything.' It is a lie, and anyone who utters it cannot be taken morally seriously.
— Dennis Prager
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
— Sherman Alexie
I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.
— Goldie Hawn
For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.
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To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
— Vladimir Lenin
If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
— Nicholas Butler
You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Bawse knows that if you want to be taken seriously, you need to show people who you are, and then keep showing them.
— Lilly Singh
Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.
— Luke Evans
The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
— Al Michaels
I shared my grandmother's distaste for the word rector - it sounded too much like rectum to be taken seriously.
— John Irving
I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
— Paul Prudhomme
The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.
— Gunduz Vassaf
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
— Alain De Botton
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.
— Hermann Hesse
We need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.
— Bell Hooks
Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.
— Margot Fonteyn
If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
— Amy Nuttall
To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.
— Paul Davies
You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.
— Matt Gonzalez
Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is too much.
— Susan Sontag
When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
— Dorothy Day
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.
— Corey Taylor
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
— Ben Stiller
A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.
— Warren Buffett
A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously.
— Aldous Huxley
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
— Eminem
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
— Howard Gardner
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
— Margaret Chan
It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
— Brittany Murphy
Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.
— Luther Standing Bear
I think anybody that is going to be taken seriously in [music] industry needs to produce their own original music.
— Paul Oakenfold
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
Here's my take on Instagram: It's so ridiculous that people can go on and play characters, and none of it [should be] taken too seriously.
— Nico Tortorella
First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.
— Konrad Adenauer
Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.
— George Clooney
Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.
— Yann Martel
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
— Heston Blumenthal
It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
— Rachel Roberts
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.
— Alessia Cara
You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.
— Leila Josefowicz
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
— Nicolas Bentley
People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.
— Kylie Minogue
I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.
— Anita Sarkeesian
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
— Hermann Hesse
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.
— George W. Bush
It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions.
— Lily James
When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously.
— Joseph Morgan
I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
— Amber Tamblyn
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
— Eugene Ionesco
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.
— Toni Cade Bambara
It's nice to be taken seriously.
— Henry Selick
As a woman writing SF, I felt I had to think and write like a man in order to be taken seriously.
— Heidi Ruby Miller
Though everyone has an equal right to speak,
not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey
not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...
— Thomas Bernhard
most holders of authority were bigoted, illogical and not to be taken seriously. I
— Bertrand Russell
Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.
— Missy Elliot
I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.
— Maurice Strong
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
— Charles Kennedy
For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.
— Frederik Pohl
I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously.
— John Malkovich
One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
— Arthur C. Clarke
I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.
— Assata Shakur
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
— Oscar Wilde