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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 had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously. — Paul Cleave

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

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously. — Barry Nelson

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

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

For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.
Simone de Beauvoir — Gale Martin

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

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

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

Carlin always said that most men were dogs, and Kelsea had never taken her seriously; there were too many good books written by men. — Erika Johansen

To be taken seriously, try being educated instead of opinionated. — Jeffrey Fry

When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously. — Jonathan Jackson

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

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. — C.S. Lewis

When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously. — Rob Lowe

It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries. — Alain De Botton

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind. — Margot Fonteyn

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously. — Jeremy Davies

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time. — Tanya Masse

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

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources. — Tucker Carlson

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. — Maurice Strong

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff. — Henry A. Kissinger

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously. — Robert Kane Pappas

Because Life is too Serious to be Taken Seriously. — Anonymous

Though everyone has an equal right to speak,
not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously. — Hubert H. Humphrey

It's nice to be taken seriously. — Henry Selick

I've never taken fashion too seriously. I try to enjoy it. — Soledad O'Brien

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

Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal. — Bell Hooks

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. — Toni Cade Bambara

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media. — Maureen Reagan

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously. — John R.W. Stott

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously. — Warren Buffett

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? — Gloria Steinem

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by. — Alessia Cara

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is too much. — Susan Sontag

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously. — Christopher Eccleston

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part. — Tom Wopat

Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously... — Thomas Bernhard

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

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously. — Barry Humphries

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. — Milan Kundera

There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you. — Abigail Disney

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously. — Frederik Pohl

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

You're apologizing? Seriously, what happened to you? Have you been taken over by a pod person? — Dianne Duvall

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. — Gerald Clarke

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been. — Bob Odenkirk

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

When you're indestructible, then nothing is a threat really. So nothing needs to be taken that seriously. — Joseph Morgan

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

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor. — Owen Wilson

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

Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously. — Yann Martel

It's so hard coming out of drama school to claim your right to be taken seriously and even get auditions. — Lily James

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor. — Val Kilmer

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why. — Lauren Bacall

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. — Larry Kramer

People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress. — Kylie Minogue

Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. — Mo Rocca

The right brain is finally being taken seriously. — Daniel H. Pink

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession. — Malcolm McDowell

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously. — Shakira

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. — Iris Murdoch

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously — Eugene Ionesco

God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him? — N. T. Wright

That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years. — Tony Judt

Life is too short to be taken seriously. — Oscar Wilde

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously. — Graham Elliot

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has. — Jacob Lew

It's not what the mind says.
It's how seriously it is taken. — Mooji

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period. — Amber Tamblyn

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