#seriously

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#after #bars #chat #death #else

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#completely #doing #ever #generally #i

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

#i #i can #keep #know #long

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#literary #never #seriously #start #suicide

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work. ↗

— Jim Evans

#enjoy #find #i #learned #lesson

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #beyond #decorative #facade #felt

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. ↗

— Tim Allen

#awaiting #comedy #decided #get #give

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#been #career #couple #day #forward

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#deal #scary #scary thing #seriously #thing

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 the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community