Obvious Quotes
1416 Obvious quotes by 1124 unique authors
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Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious…
— Thomas Merton
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It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
— Ugo Betti
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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
— Duane Michals
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No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved…
— Celia Green
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In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we…
— Rick Mercer
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
— Felix Baumgartner
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So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed…
— Ruben Blades
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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious.…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm…
— Judith Guest
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
— Malcolm McDowell
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get…
— Aaron Levie
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I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord…
— Joanna Newsom
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So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying…
— Ted Nelson
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I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.
— Elizabeth Olsen
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Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something…
— Jack Paar
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The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about…
— Jason Calacanis
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The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support…
— J. William Fulbright
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The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your…
— Scott Porter
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My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns.…
— Daniel Pipes
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My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I…
— Jim Parsons
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I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think…
— Lucas Papademos
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President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top…
— Christina Romer
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It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know…
— Rudy Rucker
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Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.
— Thomas G. Stemberg
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