Taken Seriously Quotes
135 quotes by 119 authors
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
— Iris Murdoch
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
— Ad Reinhardt
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If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever…
— Thomas Woods
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The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as…
— John Tooby
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It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never…
— Prince Charles
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The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and…
— James A. Baldwin
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I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it.…
— Richard Dawkins
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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
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I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
— Brittany Murphy
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
— Barry Humphries
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Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of…
— Shelley Duvall
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The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
— Al Michaels
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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
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I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer.…
— Rebecca Romijn
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The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly…
— Martti Ahtisaari
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Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously…
— Mark Buchanan
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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
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It may not always feel wonderful. but you're out there doing it. You're running while others are just walking. Or sitting around. I mean, come…
— Deborah Reber
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Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern…
— Richard J. Foster
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