Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Bobby McFerrin

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.
Rob Walton

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
Jonathan Lethem

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Robert Sheckley

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
Otto Weininger

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
John Conyers

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
George Stephen

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
Adam Jones

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
Ludwig Quidde

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.
Catherine O'Hara

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.
Robert Kirkman

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
Andres Serrano

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
Zach Wamp

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
Juan Cole

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!
Eva Braun

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
Peter Hook

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
Cleveland Amory

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
Charley Pride

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.
Gina Gershon