#seriously

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#be the first #come #degree #elected #first

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#because #become #every #film-making #funny

At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#feel #going #i #i feel #job

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, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#batman #being #bridges #clearly #divide

And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson'. I fainted, blacked out - like seriously blacked out. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#him #i #jackson #like #looking

I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously. ↗

— Chris Noth

#because #fun #had #i #into

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously. ↗

— Thomas P. O'Neill

#job #keeping #lesson #perspective #seriously

Don't take things too seriously. ↗

— Bruce Oldfield

#take #things #too

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#avoid #better #equally #fast #find

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

#becoming #mind #more #more and more #notoriously