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It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.
I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.
Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.
I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.