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It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.
It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.
I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.
Obamacare's terrifyingly cumbersome, competition-hostile apparatus for controlling medical costs is one of its most obvious flaws.
Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beautiful part is that I have carte blanche.
But the focus for actors is always towards acting. It is very obvious that they don't need to have training in professional music.
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
When you change teams, cities or countries it's obvious there's a period of adaption, but some players can adapt quicker than others.
I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
I really kill myself on titles, although 'The 5th Wave' seems like an obvious title, doesn't it? You don't know how long that took me.
You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't exactly fit.
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.
It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
I'm just done downplaying how much I love Radiohead and how massive of an influence they are on what I do, because it's pretty obvious.
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious they're not real.
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Like Diogenes, when millennials went on their pursuit to find the one honest man in politics, it was obvious that man was Bernie Sanders.
The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
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.
I think I'm a focal point for everyone. It's obvious that all the fans are watching every move that I make, and so why wouldn't the refs?
I'm happy that I worked alone on 'Tragedy,' but it's obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own.
Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
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.
I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing up with my Dad how obvious it is.
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.
'Ratboy' is an offbeat film with a lot of comments to make about human values. But, because it's offbeat, it doesn't have an obvious market.
I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.
If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.