I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
If a person is seriously injured as a result of someone else's negligence, then they are entitled to compensation.
I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.
President Obama and Hillary Clinton most definitely signaled to Islamic State leaders that they had no intention of seriously challenging them, or even of calling radical Islamic terrorism by its name.
Unlike some of our neighbours, India does not believe in dirty bombs. We take non-proliferation very seriously.
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.
I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.
The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
I take my role seriously as a pastor.
No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.
No one seriously believes that unlocking a cellphone to switch carriers is equivalent to piracy.
For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.