Obvious Quotes - Page 24

• When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

  Samuel Alexander

  Memories, Practice, Facts

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• I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

  Andre Balazs

  Fashion, Reality, Thinking

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• Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Revolution, Events

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sex, Selfish, Mean

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• I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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• I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

  Jane Campion

  Ocean, Piano, Goal

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• The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

  Lukas Foss

  Interesting, Facts, Influence

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• The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

  Justin Halpern

  Unique, Choices, Special

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• Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, Guy

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• I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Smart, Black And White, Artist

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• I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

  Janis Ian

  Mom, Guitar, Band

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• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  Rachel Johnson

  Children, Teenager, Thinking

  "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Dream, Home, Motherhood

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• The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

  Bill Keller

  Media, Distraction, Social

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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 films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  Aaron Levie

  Inspiration, Technology, Entertainment

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

  Malcolm McDowell

  Obvious Things, Directors, Different

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

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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 progressions are obvious references.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 to get out of your arms.

  Ted Nelson

  Struggle, Cat, Ideas

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• I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Too Much, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 that enough critics were already doing.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Book, Son

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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 this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

  Jason Calacanis

  Funny, Thoughtful, Care

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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 by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Responsibility, Support

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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 heartstrings or manipulate you.

  Scott Porter

  Friday, Night, Light

  "Scott Porter: Nobody wants to watch guys ride a mechanical bull". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 19, 2010.

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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. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

  Daniel Pipes

  Careers, Two, Political

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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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 get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

  Jim Parsons

  Character, Choices, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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