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I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist. Hozier
Myself Thought Obscure Always Very Artist
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. Ian Hacking
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology. Irwin Rose
Problems Thought College Matters State Entered Besides Given Obscure Concentrate Most Practical Courses How Were Brain Interesting Less Works Initially Washington Washington State Necessary
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. Isabelle Eberhardt
Death Way Would Some Obscure Pointless Am Die Afraid Want
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house. James Wan
Mom Pretty Something Obscure Spoke Like House Around Got Dialect Traditional Up Very Just Chinese Much Use Your English Dad Growing Growing Up Eventually
Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album. Jean-Michel Jarre
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Every writer must find a way of writing that tells the reader: This is me and no one else. The Voice can be idiosyncratic, but it cannot be obscure. It is a blend of style and content and intent and rhythm and pure personality. Jeff Lindsay
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Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do. Jerome Powell
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One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life. Jimmy Sangster
Life Old Enjoy Life Too Much Enjoy Too Spend Locked Out Seeking Obscure Until Truths Rooms Much Researching Searching
Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure? Johann Johannsson
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I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level. Johann Johannsson
Work Try Too Visceral Obscure Emotional Emotional Level Like Cerebral Level
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople. Joseph Jacobs
Before Doubt Once Remains Obscure Tales Genre Still Were Models Romance Which Little Us Origin Originals Belong
1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal. Kage Baker
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Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us. Kathe Koja
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I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental. Kim Gordon
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'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more simplification than I've ever done before. Laurence Olivier
Before Difficult More Absolutely Obscure Simplification Involved Felt Than Done Often Richard Really Film Ever Play Necessary
Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society. Lawrence Wright
Men Society Our Obscure Most Contempt Strata
My birth was managed so rottenly that my mother had eventually to have a hysterectomy, after which she was ill off & on till she dies for obscure reasons when I was just 7. Louis MacNeice
Mother Birth Obscure Had She Till Off Dies Just After Which Ill Reasons Eventually
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. Lynn Nottage
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It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us. Margo Lanagan
Own Think Imagination Seems Obscure Because Processes Us Body Aspect Useful
With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material. Matthew Shultz
Life You Fears Think Out Through Obscure Glimpse Most Safeguards Material Block Truly Person Just Who Each Ever Thing
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. Michael Korda
Life People Human Being Some People Some About Obscure Altogether Real Cultural Real Human Legends Human Being Famous Aftermath Them
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal. Michael Pollan
Food Long Eat Food Chain Obscure Opaque Reveal Ready-Made End Very Information Packages Us Much Chain Now
With 'Scratch,' you create computer programs by snapping together graphical programming blocks, much like LEGO bricks, without any of the obscure syntax and punctuation of traditional programming languages. After creating an interactive 'Scratch' project, you can share it on the 'Scratch' website, just as you would share videos on YouTube. Mitchel Resnick
Website You Together Videos YouTube Programming Programs Project Syntax Punctuation Would Computer Obscure Share Like Without Traditional Blocks Any Scratch Just Lego Interactive After Create Much Creating Languages Bricks
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music. Moby
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One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. Muriel Rukeyser
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