Obvious Quotes - Page 25

• 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 it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Commitment, Thinking

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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 earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.

  Christina Romer

  Cutting, Years, President

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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 how it's going to end.

  Rudy Rucker

  Watches, Half, Hours

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• Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Opportunity, World, Best Opportunity

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• Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Mean, Stories

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.29, A&C Black

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• The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Writing, Fire

  "Why Write?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. October 15, 2007.

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• My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

  Nicholas Stern

  Father, Fighting, Hands

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• As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

  Chely Wright

  Girl, Gay, Age

  "Confessions of a Gay Christian Country Singer" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Long, Creative, Inability

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

  Mike Leigh

  Thinking, Perfectly Good, Actors

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• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  Nate Mendel

  Sex, Practice, Hiv

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.

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• I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

  Brian Molko

  Way, Attractive, Found

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• I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

  Don McLean

  Kids, Pneumonia, Asthma

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• That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

  Steve Vai

  Artist, Natural, Conscious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Google, Trying, Looks

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• It’s becoming obvious to most that mainstream media is nothing but a megaphone for the global elite to present biased news that’s designed to align the masses with their agenda.

  James Morcan

  Media, News, Agendas

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• I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.

  William Eggleston

  Interesting, Quality, Down And

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• The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Powerful, Real, Book

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• To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Matter, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.6, Routledge

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• It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States -- You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke -- the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Littles, Voters

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• I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Thinking, Winning, Games

  "The Busted Racquet Interview: Caroline Wozniacki". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

  Kojo Annan

  Play, Roles, Reason

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• All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

  Daniel Mainwaring

  Men, Wonder

  "Fictional character: Eels". "Out of the Past", 1947.

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• Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation

  Julian Whitaker

  Pain, Heart, Doctors

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• When I first heard about Y Combinator, it was one of those ideas that just seemed forehead-slappingly obvious. Good ideas often do, in retrospect.

  Mark Fletcher

  Ideas, Retrospect, Firsts

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