We all sometimes take ourselves too seriously. I want them to think that I'm one of them, that this is their school and we can all have a lot of fun laughing at ourselves.
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Related We don't take ourselves too seriously. We just have fun. DOUG MACK We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i... KATHERINE MANSFIELD We can only blame this one on ourselves. We gave them that game at the end. CARLY ORMEROD All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ou... MILLA JOVOVICH I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises wh... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place t... MILLA JOVOVICH Those are the places where we want to go and not take ourselves too seriously. We'll leave great act... JOE SIMPSON I think it just speaks to the fact that we don't take ourselves too seriously. We're a realistic sho... ELISABETH HASSELBECK Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN At the beginning of our season we all actually said that to ourselves, that this is not how we want ... CARLY CURRAN I think we all realized what was at stake. We had talked about it all week, the big ballgame for us ... JOE GIBBS We did most things in one take. We never play a song the same way. We're trying to take our music in... JACK JOSTES When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i... KATHERINE MANSFIELD The kids believe we can take it a step further this year. At the same time, we don't look too far ah... JAVIER RAMIREZ We don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We're not like this gothic, brooding, sitting-around-... DAN ANDRIANO Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that s... GEORGE HARRISON We don't take ourselves too seriously. I wouldn't say it's full-on tongue-in-cheek, but we do have a... ROBERT COOPER We put in a lot of work to get here. I want them to have some fun too. FRANK KNOX Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor,... MICHAEL MULLEN I told them that (today) we have to take a lot of batting practice because we didn't hit the ball at... CARL RELYEA They're sensational! HARRY STYLES It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. PETER USTINOV We want them to be independent and responsible and be on their own. At the same time, we want to vie... WHITNEY RANSOME I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause ... KRIS KIDD We want to take all of your comments and look at how we can address them. DEBRA SULLIVAN It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall ... C. JOYBELL C. Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a great way to spend an hour and a half. It's not so much that it will make you a better person... JAMES ROE We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatalit... DAVID G. DYE We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids h... GREG ANDREWS I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align... ANGELA CARTER The first day of practice we set some lofty goals, and a lot of people might have laughed at them. B... JASON COUCH We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, '... JANINE SHEPHERD It definitely helped us to be in those types of games. We learned to execute and learned how to give... DAVE HANCOCK All season the coaches have been stressing these things. I feel it's our responsibility as players t... DAN CAGE It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invis... THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS There's definitely a sense of urgency. Even though we lost that Pittsburgh game (the season finale),... LAWYER MILLOY I told them at the one timeout, we're not out of this game. All we have to do is pick it up and star... JAMIE DUNN When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW They're very important games. We need to win all four of them so that we can keep ourselves in the M... KYLE MAGNUSSON I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes. CASSANDRA CLARE On the last possession, we all looked at ourselves and said if we play the best defense we have play... JOEL QUICK People say there is a lot of expectation on the England side but I can't speak for them. We are just... DWAYNE PEEL I think we're all aware of what's at stake. But we can't get ahead of ourselves. Taking one game at ... KEVIN GALLAGHER I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a l... SEBASTIAN THRUN I kind of think of my life as this incredible hurricane of so many adventures. We can all make a dif... BINDI IRWIN We have got to win all of them, but we have to take them one at a time in order to do that. We have ... CHARLIE MANUEL [In private, White House officials sounded almost resigned to the inevitability of catastrophe.] All... DICK CHENEY We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to... MARGO JONKER I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all ca... JIM BROADBENT We cant always take every piece of equipment we have off-road, but we can take the MARCBOT off-road,... JAMES DUNCAN We can't always take every piece of equipment we have off-road, but we can take the MARCBOT off-road... JAMES DUNCAN I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our... SAUL BELLOW We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think... DANE MOODY We all have a face that we hide away forever,And we take them out and show ourselves when everyone h... BILLY JOEL I think everybody is capable of beating everybody else at this point. I don't think there's a team o... JEFF TAMBRONI We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happ... PAUL AUSTER I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines a... RON PAUL Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we crea... SILAS HOUSE We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, w... NEAL SHUSTERMAN We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can... LUIGI PIRANDELLO You know, that man has a spirit, that each man and woman is unique, that we have duty to promote our... MARK R. LEVIN I think any time we can recognize children for doing what we want them to do, there can be no harm i... CAROL THOMAS Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement ... NEIL GAIMAN Star Wars fans are some of the kindest, most generous folks on the planet, but like all fans, every ... YZ FREEDMAN Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we fin... MARK TWAIN We are all suffering, but we have to do it to take care of ourselves. BRANDON WHITING Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA All I can tell them at this point is that we will let them know, BARRY ARNOLD We're going to have to play well and keep getting better. We want to make a run at the end of the ye... DAN SCHMIDT The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t... ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When ... ERIC HOFFER All the results went for us, but we are not getting ahead of ourselves. We all want promotion, but t... JOHN REES They don't have the same cultural diversity at their school. Even though we wish they could have, th... JAMES WARD All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a ki... FELICE PICANO I think we needed this practice to relax. We were putting too much pressure on ourselves and this wi... JENNILEE HUDDLESTON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Every guy that went out there, we weren't just playing for ourselves. We were playing for all the vi... ANTHONY PERINE I think we can knock them off their pedestal. I think we can do them but, more importantly, the team... BOB MORTON Not at all, not at all. I just want to have fun and have a good, competitive day with them, that's a... ANISSA MADRID Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. QUEEN ELIZABETH Almost all these classes are where the people teaching them love the program. We built them up ourse... JANET HANSEN We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help... SABRINA CARPENTER First of all, we did not sign any agreement. I think that we are patriots who are trying to save our... YOSSI BEILIN One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv... BILLY COLLINS We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom... CRISS JAMI I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our se... FLOYD SKLOOT I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves. NICHOLAS SPARKS It's fun, man. All you can do at this point is play hard. This is one of those things that not a lot... MICHAEL TUCKER Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of. AARON B. POWELL I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them. LOU HOLTZ I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. I... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze ... ERIN O'CONNOR Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today... ANGIE KARAN Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially ... PATRICIA MCCORMICK
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