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• For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved and he has a tie on. But he's a real fanatic - a fanatic by definition is the one who says, if you are not with me, you are against me, and that's exactly the position he takes. The mullahs in my country, it's obvious. But a guy who says I am the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world and asks people to read the Bible and make crusades and says he's God's best friend - this guy is even more scary because you don't see it at the beginning.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Real, Ties

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

  Hannah Fidell

  Fun, Editing, Shooting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Winning is the obvious goal, but it's not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it's going to take hard work. In the meantime I'll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack.

  Danica Patrick

  Hard Work, Winning, Goal

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

  David McCullough

  Suffering, Stories, Who We Are

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Study, Straight Lines

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• The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

  Lisa Alther

  Vegetables, Adults, Dessert

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• It is obvious that Paul did not regard prayer as supplemental, but as fundamental-not something to be added to his work but the very matrix out of which his work was born. He was a man of action because he was a man of prayer. It was probably his prayer even more than his preaching that produced the kind of leaders we meet in his letters.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Prayer, Men, Leader

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• If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life.
  Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

  Aristotle

  Running, Men, Doing You

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• Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

  Paulo Freire

  Assuming, Teach, Understood

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.43, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

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• Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

  Alfred Bester

  Ability, Intellect

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• It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

  John Dewey

  Country, School, Ties

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, David Sidorsky (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1927-1928”, p.230, SIU Press

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• For me now, I feel that climbing is a part of who I am. It's my way of life. It's my way of expressing myself. My way of being in the world. In the past, I questioned it a lot. Now it's obvious. This is who I am. This is what I do.

  Chris Sharma

  Past, Climbing, Who I Am

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• Whenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Real, Ideas, People

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• One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

  Fischer Black

  Fun, Firsts, Ridiculous

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• I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.

  Steve Buscemi

  Crush, Independent, Thinking

  "Steve Buscemi talks 'Sopranos,' 'Interview'". The Associated Press Interview, www.nbcnews.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Success is a refined study of the obvious

  Jim Rohn

  Study, Refined

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• Beaumont specifically pointed out that the cultural elements and idioms regarded as "Egyptian" could not have originated in the land of the Nile. This single fact is inviolate and cannot be denied. It is obvious to those who have taken the time to study the subject, that the Egyptian civilization was transplanted by Western adepts and elders.

  Michael Tsarion

  Taken, Land, Civilization

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• Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

  Errol Morris

  "Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Part One)". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 25, 2007.

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Things take a little more time when you're not doing really obvious sales. I don't have any nudity in my videos, or anything close to it, and I don't have shootouts or explosions or car chases ... There aren't a bunch of drugs in the videos and I am not wearing hot pants, and I don't dance. So, as far as videos or anything visually is concerned, I'm not a very visually stimulating artist.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Artist, Car, Drug

  "Gavin DeGraw speaks out on life and music". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. February 4, 2005.

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• I like movies that deal with trapped men. Men that need to make choices that are not obvious or easy choices. Then how do you visualize this? You create this character conflicted between two sides, because drama is about the conflict of two things, between your duty and your will, between what you want and what you can't have. It is all conflict between two things, and this is why you put your character in a place where you can visualize the conflict.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Drama, Character, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.

  Amy Ziering

  Challenges, Trying, Population

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  Wendell Pierce

  Art, Journey, Impact

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Half, Climate, Would Be

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