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I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money. -- Abbey Clancy
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things. -- Malcolm McDowell
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision. -- Steven Levitt
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons. -- Michael Ian Black
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. -- Tom G. Palmer
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One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. -- Jeff Bezos
I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and obvious. -- Chelsea Leyland
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. -- Andre Gide
Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness. -- John Galliano
I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. -- Gary Oldman
It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason. -- Marie Kondo
I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them. -- Imtiaz Ali
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. -- John F. Kennedy
Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things. -- Clive Anderson
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals. -- James Fallows
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. -- Calvin Coolidge
Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition. -- Henry Markram
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. -- Alain de Botton
Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first. -- Richard Schmid
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light. -- Luigi Ghirri
I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice. -- John Green
People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge. -- Scott Berkun
One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it. -- Dennis Ritchie
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me. -- Kevin Hearne
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
What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without." -- Fred Alan Wolf
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way. -- George Polya
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things. -- Robert Hooke
I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated. -- Dylan Moran
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. -- Frank Gehry
Things always become obvious after the fact -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true. -- Terry Pratchett
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. -- Oscar Wilde
Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened. -- Christopher Walken
Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do. -- Ron Kaufman
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen. -- B. W. Powe
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them -- Terry Pratchett
Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook. -- Pittacus Lore
It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies. -- Cindy Sheehan
Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious. -- Kobe Bryant
I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'. -- Jimmy Carr
One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer. -- Lisa Randall
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. -- Christopher Lasch
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious. -- Alastair Campbell
The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the clichÃ©, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past. -- David Mamet
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious. -- Douglas Adams
Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because theyâ??re tired of repeating those things. -- Kim A-joong
Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. -- James Lankford
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things. -- Plato
I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy. -- Miuccia Prada

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