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• So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Forever, Gone

  Interview, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Mean, World, Given

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Inspirational, Too Late, Students

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• even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

  Patrick Ness

  People, Choices, Peaceful

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• People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.

  Kevin Hearne

  Discovery, People, Worry

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.274, Del Rey

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• I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

  John Green

  Real, Voice, Profound

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.197, Penguin

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• It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Assassins, Imagine, Should

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.

  Blake Nelson

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  Blake Nelson (2008). “Girl”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Civilization, Decay, Forget

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• From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  Simple, Perspective, Atonement

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Racing

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.

  George Ezra

  Song, Growing Up, Listening

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.

  Seth Godin

  Choices, Littles, Cows

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Spring, Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.

  Robert Hooke

  Time, Nature, Science

  Robert Hooke (1906). “Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”

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• The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

  Tod Machover

  Wells, Devices, Limitation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight.

  Beverley Nichols

  Beautiful, Summer, Flower

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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Directors, Different, Offers

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. Ocotber 11, 2007.

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• The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Sound, Corny

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• Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.

  Randy Alcorn

  Light, Giving, Decision

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.461, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Spring, Knowledge, Science

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• Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Dark, Light, Remember

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• If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way.

  George Polya

  Book, Giving, Lines

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated.

  Dylan Moran

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

  Richard Schmid

  Powerful, Firsts, Paint

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