For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
Joyce Maynard

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.
Helen Suzman

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
Ethan Allen

My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.
Kelly Preston

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
Prince Charles

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
Joe Murray

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
Ike Skelton

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
Benjamin Cohen

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.
Anna Faris

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
Fay Godwin

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Howard Hodgkin

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.
Claire Danes

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.
Mary Cheney

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 in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
Christopher Nolan

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
Dan Hawkins

We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television.
Ernie Wise

The European nations take climate change very seriously.
Donella Meadows

I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
Leon Redbone

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.
Steve Crocker

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
Greg Lake