Obvious Quotes - Page 37

• All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Honesty, Self

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• This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

  David Mitchell

  Baby, Love Is, Lust

  David Mitchell (2014). “The Bone Clocks”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering on innocent people of a scope and scale that would embarrass the most ambitious psychopath, we're told that? God is mysterious.

  Sam Harris

  People, Suffering, Religion

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• You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

  Spencer Johnson

  Simple, Thinking, Important

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• 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 release that he is a very talented man.

  Jon Landau

  Men, Self, White

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• 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 no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

  Jon Landau

  Rocks, Self, Musical

  Jon Landau (1972). “It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal”

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• One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.

  Max Walker

  Character, Able, Ifs

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

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• A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

  Michael Howard

  Elements, Common, Language

  "s Full text: Michael Howard's speech". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2004.

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• It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

  Jack London

  Simple, Civilization, Adjusting

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.1689, Jack

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• There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Errors

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• I do believe in reading signs if they're really obvious to you. Things happen. Someone will say something to you today in the morning and then later on that day someone will mention the same thing and then the next day someone will mention it again. There's a reason why three people have said something within twenty four hours.

  Eric Bana

  Morning, Believe, Reading

  "Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 13, 2009.

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• I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty.

  David Suchet

  Queens, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

  Elijah Wood

  Intense Moments, Solitude, Peppers

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.

  Danny Dyer

  Scare, Rubbish, Scripts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The boring people are the worst. I think it's obvious, I think people have always had phobias about flying for years even before 9/11 and everything like that. It just taps into that and it taps into who you are going to sit next to on the plane.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Winning, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

  Simon Pegg

  Country, Thinking, Term

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of the different drug executives. They're old white men, very buttoned up. They're appropriate, so to speak. I'm a little bit more irreverent, and I'm not going to change just because I have this job.

  Martin Shkreli

  Jobs, Men, White

  "We called Martin Shkreli and asked him point blank about the drug-price scandal - here's what he said". Interview with Lydia Ramsey, www.businessinsider.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

  John Hurt

  Two, Directors, Reason

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. March 22, 2007.

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• The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

  Sam Mendes

  Simple, People, Joy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 2, 2009.

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• I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

  Geoff Dyer

  Obvious Things, Boredom, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Needs, Littles, Sometimes

  "'Bloom County' And Opus The Penguin Return After A 25-Year Hiatus". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 12, 2015.

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• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that the clues had always been right in front of them. A traffic ticket in Brooklyn is how they got ["Son of Sam" serial killer] David Berkowitz. You've just got to look.

  James Ellroy

  Son, Serial Killer, Looks

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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