Best Taken Seriously Quotations
135 Taken Seriously quotes by 119 unique authors
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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
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I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.
— Will Ferrell
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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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
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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
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I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to…
— Carl Lewis
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You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They…
— Harvey Mackay
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Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling…
— Alanis Morissette
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For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean,…
— Christopher Nolan
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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job…
— Christopher Nolan
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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…
— Chris O'Dowd
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life…
— Dennis Prager
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Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
— Mo Rocca
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It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play…
— Will Self
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
— Oscar Wilde
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I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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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…
— Sherman Alexie
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Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas…
— Robert Wilson Lynd
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You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
— Hermann Hesse
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We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are…
— Chetan Bhagat
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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
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken seriously. And fairies…
— Dawn French
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