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“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”

Thinking Writing Different Wanted Song Folks Obvious Different Things Chords Progression Folk Music

Author:Joanna Newsom

“So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.”

Trying Ideas Struggle Arms Cat Notion Obvious Footnotes

Author:Ted Nelson

“I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.”

Feels Too Much Obvious

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.”

Book Enough Funny Parent Son Lovers Advantage Critics Obvious Titles

Author:Jack Paar

“The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.”

Care Funny Pay Products Jokes Folks Obvious Authenticity Compromise Idiot Thoughtful Currency Blogs Blogging

Author:Jason Calacanis

“The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.”

Knows Mean States United Responsibility United States Support Share Objects Bears Weapons Jew Obvious Warfare Settlement Continuation

Author:J. William Fulbright

“The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.”

Shows Light Night Beats Obvious Great Things Friday Manipulate Friday Night Night Light Friday Night Lights Heartstrings

Author:Scott Porter

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.”

Character Happens Choices Actors Levels Roles Wonderful Tvs Projects Theater Series Financial Obvious Consistent Paychecks Tv Series

Author:Jim Parsons

“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.”

Thinking Country Moments Government Difficult Support Office Commitment Obvious Saved Our Country Euro Membership Difficult Moments

Author:Lucas Papademos

“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.”

Way Years President Cutting Taxes Raises Rate Congress Obvious President Obama Earning Revenue Tax Cuts

Author:Christina Romer

“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.”

Knows Ends Hours Half Watches Know How Obvious Tedious

Author:Rudy Rucker

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

World Opportunity Obvious Best Opportunity

Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“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.”

Knows Writing Wells Mean Stories Seems Realizing Reader Obvious Rationale

Book:Tenth of December

Source: Tenth of December

“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.”

“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.”

Hands Fighting Father Generations Solutions Harder Crisis Threat Climate Climate Change Obvious Fascism

Author:Nicholas Stern

“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.”

Age Young Girl Felt Achieve Gay Messages Obvious I Realized Nine Limitation Compounds

Author:Chely Wright

“We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.”

Self Problem Age Wake Up Add Obvious Lists Disaster Folly Addresses Fourth Tweet Entry

Author:Thomas Frank

“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.”

Knows Long Process Creative Century Huge Obvious Burden Creative Process Protected Inability Copyright

Book:Free Culture

Source: Free Culture

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

Thinking Film Actors Obvious Good Actors Perfectly Good

Author:Mike Leigh

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

Values Sex Ability Practice Audience Safe Obvious Fighter Questioning Hiv Foo Fighters

Author:Nate Mendel

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

Way Found Obvious Attractive

Author:Brian Molko

“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.”

Kids Turns Died Obvious Asthma Pneumonia

Author:Don McLean

“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.”

Artist Natural Audience Conscious Obvious Great Art Great Artist

Author:Steve Vai

“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.”

Ifs Trying Looks Hard Bigs Obvious Reports Google Fashionable Big Business Analysts Skype

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“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.”

Media Becoming News Mass Obvious Agendas Elites Mainstream Biased Mainstream Media

Author:James Morcan

“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.”

Ifs Wells Stills I Can Turns Interesting Quality Down And Photographer Photograph Obvious Instance Abstract Organized Upside Down

Author:William Eggleston

“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.”

People Matter Facts Seems Modern Century Authority Ancient Obvious Educated Observation Conception Matter Of Fact Consulting

Book:The Impact of Science On Society

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“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.”

People Looks Littles States Courses Next Bits United Deals United States Little Bit Jokes Fairs Vote Obvious Criminals Campaigns Advertising Best Things Voters

Author:Frank Zappa

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Today Courses Games Winning Loses Obvious Feel Good

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

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

Reason Play Nations United Roles Obvious United Nations

Author:Kojo Annan

“Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.”

May Seems Artist Culture Expression Communication Approach Obvious Layers Realism Unnecessary Misunderstood American Culture Magical Realism Freedom Of Expression Iranian Magic Realism

Author:Shirin Neshat

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

Men Wonder Obvious

Author:Daniel Mainwaring

“The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.”

Money Obvious Lacking Thrift

Book:Good intentions

Source: Good intentions

“It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.”

Obvious Stealing

Author:Black Francis

“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Humans Two Century Events University Obvious Backgrounds Recognition Instruction Inclusion

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.”

World Culture Periods Obvious World Love African Culture

Author:Hugh Masekela

“Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.”

Left Painting Obvious Finishing Incomplete Completion

Author:Robert Breault

“To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.”

Needs Seems Economy Democracy Growing Balance India Democratic Population Obvious China Candidates New Friends Growing Economy

Author:David Frum

“It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.”

World Mean Seems Lasts Natural Clear Environmental Obvious Our Love Natural World

Book:Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

Source: Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader

“The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.”

Men Hard Enough Next Streets He Man Climate Obvious Decades Global Warming

Author:James Hansen

“I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.”

Kind Guy Obvious

Author:Kit Harington

“The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.”

Obvious Mystical Inexplicable

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.”

Firsts Has Beens States Father Natural Conditions Source Authority Ancient Obvious Bored Fancy Latin Hymns Ennui Tedium

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer.”

Book Dream Reading Realizing Subjects Obvious Dreamer Books And Reading Writers Reading

Book:Playing in the Dark

Source: Playing in the Dark

“It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.”

Ifs Chance Theory Obvious Darwinism

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.”

Painting Resources Obvious Landscape Misanthropy Landscape Painting

Book:Criticisms on Art

Source: Criticisms on Art

“There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.”

Ifs Reason Cases Modern Wind Balance Equal Obvious Combination Strings Interpretation Satisfying Composition Orchestra Adapted Modern Music

Author:John Philip Sousa

“Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.”

Persons Religion Obvious Mystic Puzzled

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.”

Long Doe Views Style Fine Periods Musical Obvious Point Of View Delicate Eloquence Allusion Cadence Declamation

Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

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