Obvious Quotes

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I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were… — Ronnie Montrose
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes… — Jon Ronson
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the… — William Kingdon Clifford
All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious. — Daniel Mainwaring
People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message,… — Azar Nafisi
To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is… — Bjorn Lomborg
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent… — Thomas Frank
People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they… — Mark Thomas
Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons. — Michael Ian Black
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept… — James Fallows
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a… — Adam Hochschild
The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like… — Rob Sheffield
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed… — Jon Landau
Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional… — Jon Landau
When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will… — Darrell Hammond
Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on… — James Fenton
Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense… — Atul Gawande
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that's paid off immensely. In retrospect, committing to the graphics… — Bill Gates
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. — George Soros

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