We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
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
I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes. " My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?
Don't take life too seriously.
Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.
I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.
Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.
I kept doing my own thing, working out with weights, wrestling, and doing other spots until I graduated from high school. Then I made a conscious decision to pursue MMA seriously and full time.
I think we are isolating ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
I thought I had a type but I don't really have a type anymore. I just look for a girl who doesn't take herself too seriously.
A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.