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Obvious Quotes
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
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"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."
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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."
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"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
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"With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
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"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
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"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
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"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."
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"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
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"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
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"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."
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"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."
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"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
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"It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville."
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"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."
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"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
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