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“Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.”

May Goal My Own Focus

Author:Torrey Smith

“Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.”

War Sides Numbers Greater Higher Length Casualties

Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.”

Materials Type Highest Advantage Efficient Efficiency Fuel Efficiency

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

Source: Speeches

“Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.”

People Excited Reactions Valentine Valentine's Day Singles

Author:Kathy Valentine

“Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be, to realise as sacred art anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.”

Littles Art Purpose Values Holy Shapes Opposites Sacred Intention Worthy Realising Pitiful Sacred Art

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.”

Ifs Problem Young Left White Issues Female Aging Males Conservative

Author:Dennis Prager

“Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.”

Matter Cases Lists Memorable Time Spent Most Memorable

Author:Catherine Crier

“Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.”

Ifs Way Spirit My Own Empty Music And Lyrics

Author:Joan Jett

“Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.”

Reason Purpose Games Team Influence Honor Fit Baseball Gifted

Author:Lance Berkman

“Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family. Those people know who you are, and that's accurate.”

People Knows Opinion Who You Are Our Family Accurate Closest Crew

Author:Joey Logano

“Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.”

Persons Careers Influence

Author:Dennis Ritchie

“Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.”

Firsts Persons Book Real Together Force Careers Plans Influence Masters Computer Bases Chess Phenomenon Predecessors Endgame Unix

Author:Dennis Ritchie

“Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).”

Real States Action Pain Choices Energy Issues Position Former Latter Irrelevant Helplessness Paralysis Position Of Power

Author:Susan Jeffers

“Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.”

Should Wells States Individual Nations Responsibility Crime Duty Bedroom Creeps Prohibition Individual Rights

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.”

States Use Community Levels Effort Technology Economy Environment Competition Locals Site Employers Global Economy Massachusetts Competitiveness

Author:Christopher Anderson

“Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.”

Dream Married Ultimate Being Married

Author:Peter Andre

“Obviously, the United States' own founding principles are self-determination. And I think what the United States and our allies want to do is to enable the Syrian people to make that determination. You know, we've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and - and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed.”

People Thinking Kind Determination Chaos Violent

Author:Rex W. Tillerson

“Obviously, the urge to molest children comes from some experience the person has had as a child, and he or she never worked it out. Watching Raymond Buckey describe how he loved working with the kids, I could sense this 11-year-old who'd stopped and never grown further on a sexual level.”

Children Kids

Author:Laura Dern

“Obviously, the US does not want a shooting war with North Korea. But there has to be some path out of this situation that is also presented that is peaceful. We have sanctions, we have deterrence, but the third leg of any resolution to this problem has to be dialogue. It seems prudent for the US to not only threaten North Korea, but to also offer a way forward.”

War Problem Situation Path Dialogue Peaceful Resolution North Korea

Author:Charles K. Armstrong

“Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.”

Young Certain Air Maturity Dancer

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.”

People Rights Mainstream Conservation

Author:Charles Schumer

“Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.”

Firsts Lessons Lessons To Be Learned

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.”

People Littles Moral Wall Prison Patriotic Conformity Shocking Standpoint Breach

Author:George Carlin

“Obviously, there are political operatives that are playing a role. It doesn't mean it shouldn't be denounced. All candidates should say, we want to have - be able to have nonviolent, peaceful speaking events. Do not hurt people, do not hit. Do not break the law, no one is encouraging violence. That's what should be stated very clearly. Denounce any violence that occurs. Be honest to say exactly also, what is behind this. They are trying to elicit and produce a specific response to try to discredit and to paint Donald Trump in a particular light. That is - that's what's happening.”

People Trying Mean Political Hurt Break Violence Honest Response Paint Peaceful Being Honest Discredit

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.”

Interest Eating Profound Debt Ice Cream Pennies National Debt

Author:Bobby Scott

“Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.”

Diversity Europe Unions

Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.”

Littles Action Ambition Doing Nothing

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.”

Art Language Felt Process Pleasure Execution Exquisite

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Obviously, there's a big homage to Outland in Moon. I obviously had Ridley Scott's response, which was great. But Peter Hyams really loved Moon and was really enthusiastic about it. He was also enthusiastic about the fact we'd remembered Outland and had remembered it fondly. I think, for him, it was like some kind of edification that there were people out there who loved his film. So, that was a really lovely feeling.”

People Thinking Kind Facts Feelings Bigs Film Moon Response Lovely Remembered Peter Enthusiastic Homage Edification

Author:Duncan Jones

“Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.”

Author:Aaron McGruder

“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.”

People Knows Giving Trying Humans Art Decision Levels Awareness Media Information Television Happenings Reflection Encouragement Fascinated Generalization Life Happens

Author:Reggie Watts

“Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.”

Ifs Thinking World Kind Art Beautiful Form Sides Term Instruments Dancing Clubs Hyper Really Beautiful Pole Dancing

Author:Megalyn Echikunwoke

“Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.”

Dues Temptation Stakes Diligence Due Diligence

Author:Ralph Neas

“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.”

Wells Heart Mean Facts Able Spiritual Goal Consciousness Our Lives Magic Pure Ancient Objectives Observation Sane Surroundings Evoke Latent Owing Analogue Ancient Egyptian

Author:R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

“Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.”

Knows Idiot Gang Live And Let Live

Author:David Gilmour

“Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Looks Real Grows Economy Percent Blow Israel Iran Quarters Probability

Author:Steve Forbes

“Obviously, this is our first album [Begin], so this is our first big body of work that's out there in the world and it really represents our journey, from where we started to now and all the music we created, our range, and all the things that we definitely shared, but weren't able to show our range on a full-scale until this album.”

World Firsts Shows Body Bigs Able Journey Albums Scales Range

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Obviously, this isn't my normal life, traveling to cities and talking to journalists. It's fun. It's really fun. I get to stay in a cool hotel and eat good food and meet cool people, but that's not my normal life. It's pretty pedestrian. I have coffee in the morning, I go for a run, and then I write for as long as I possibly can.”

People Writing Long Running Fun Cities Talking Morning Normal Coffee Journalist Hotel Normal Life Good Food Pedestrians Cool People

Author:James Ponsoldt

“Obviously, this isn't the time in my life that I would have chosen to do this, but I feel like life gives you these challenges for a reason. I feel so happy and glad to be in the place that I am. I really feel blessed. This is something I need to face and take control of.”

Needs Giving Feels Reason Faces Challenges Blessed Glad Chosen Take Control

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“Obviously, throughout my career, I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time. When I look at the work that I've done, it's always very indicative of where I was in my life at the moment.”

Looks Done Moments Certain Felt Careers Right Time

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Obviously, Turkey is not a typical authoritarian regime, and obviously it's very important that there are free elections. But it's also obvious that this is not a liberal, mature democracy. This is why I call Turkey a wobbly democracy. At any time, it can tip over and fall down.”

Important Fall Democracy Election Obvious Mature Regimes Typical Turkeys Falling Down Free Elections

Author:Elif Safak

“Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.”

Heart Long Sex Process Challenges Violence Long Time Threat Males Aggression Dominance Male Dominance Aggression And Violence

Author:Gloria Steinem

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.”

Industry Waste Enormous Fantastic Waste Disposal

Author:Felix Dennis

“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.”

Ifs Thinking Made Self Bits Impossible Fronts Photography Happenings Cameras Photographer Photograph Honestly Made It Portraits Self Portrait

Author:John Sexton

“Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.”

Ifs Knows Want Crazy Weapons Nuclear Developing Iran Nuclear Weapons

Author:Martin Van Creveld

“Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.”

Should Mind Different States Enough Stories Sleep Pay Emotion Attention Fire Havens Wake Up Structure Pay Attention Subconscious Surreal

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Obviously, we went after Trump quite a bit, but I also feel like, we can't be on anyone's side, really. We need to be on comedy's side, so we need to be fairly going after everyone, because the entire political system is a circus. So it's been fun and interesting, and I hope people enjoy the evolution of the show. It'll continue to evolve because you can't do the same show forever. I feel like people would get bored with that.”

People Political Fun Enjoy Interesting Forever Evolution Evolve Bored

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Obviously, we were fortunate to win the hockey game, and we'll take it, because there have been some games that we haven't been fortunate enough in. I don't think we played exceptionally well from any standpoint, other than our first period. And our goaltender really stole the game for us. In all reality, you have to give him credit for the win. He stole the points.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Wells Has Beens Enough Reality Games Winning Havens Periods Credit Fortunate Hockey Standpoint

Author:Randy Carlyle

“Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism.”

Has Beens War Government Members Concern Congress Terrorism Partners War On Terror War On Terrorism Uzbekistan

Author:Brian Whitman

“Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.”

Thinking Knows Way Dies Sides Debate

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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