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...it is time to sit down and shut up. You have shamed yourself beyond belief. While you are at it, please fire the idiot you call a campaign manager. He clearly ain`t up to the job. - In response to Senator George Allen`s use of an obscure racial slur on the campaign trail

- James Landrith

All the little films I`ve done that were perceived by Hollywood as these obscure, weird things, I always thought could appeal to a larger audience. I mean, box office is such a mystery to me that I can`t . . . you know . . . I have enough trouble doing my own gig.

- Johnny Depp

I was a fan of the Daredevil and Green Arrow characters, so it seemed logical to write them. Now I`m kind of interested in taking obscure characters and seeing if we can turn them into top ten books. I mean, DD and GA had somewhat built-in audiences, so there was a basis to work from. But could we take a Doctor Strange book and put that in the top ten? That`d be a fun challenge.

- Kevin Smith

All the little films I`ve done that were perceived by Hollywood as these obscure, weird things, I always thought could appeal to a larger audience. I mean, box office is such a mystery to me that I can`t... you know... I have enough -trouble doing my own gig.

- Johnny Depp

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

- Mickey Rourke

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

- Renée Zellweger

He`s (T-1000) one of the ones that I`m the most proud of, but I can`t say that he`s my favorite. But he`s one of my close top favorites. I`ve done some roles since that I`m really proud of. I was proud of what I did in CopLand. I really liked what I did in Terminator 2; there have just been a lot of characters since that I`ve done that I`ve really enjoyed. I REALLY enjoyed John Doggett. He was definitely a role that I very much enjoyed. He might be my favorite. Yeah, Doggett might be my favorite actually. But I really liked the character I played in CopLand, a little movie I did called The Only Thrill" with Sam Shepherd, Diane Keaton and Diane Lane, and another movie, a very obscure little independent movie called "Texas Funeral" with Martin Sheen." - (on his favorite character)

- Robert Patrick

The notion of the single man began in the 1950`s. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

- Hugh M. Hefner

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.

- Björk
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. I`m a bit of a nerd, I wouldn`t mind working in a shop like 12 Tónar selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. I would also like to teach music. It`s weird the way they teach music in schools like Juliard these days. I know someone who graduated at age 20 as a classical composer, playing music the way they did a hundred years ago or more. I would take kids out into nature, and teach them that they can be right, and not just the teacher. I would let them lead the way. To some degree, at least...

- Björk
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You don`t discover the cause of something like AIDS by dealing with incredibly obscure things. You just look at what the hell is going on.

- Kary Mullis

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

- Dennis Potter

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

- Dick Cheney

I am not concerned with making esoteric, obscure kinds of films. These are films that can share and talk to anybody about real things.

- Mike Leigh

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

- Martin Short

I did become quite well known from "Four Weddings", and it helped hugely. I wasn`t as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work. I couldn`t complain. It got me jobs in the theatre. I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays and never got one job, until I was in "Four Weddings".

- Anna Chancellor

These products are really exciting, not only because they are a little bit more obscure, unique, but they also taste really good.

- Michael Green

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

- Steve Wozniak

Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

- Victor Hugo

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

- G.K. Chesterton

Relevance to Alzheimer`s? I don`t know, ... It`s a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer`s is currently obscure.

- Peter Davies

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won`t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

- Terry Pratchett

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

- Andrea Dworkin

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

- Abner Louima

The past is certain, the future obscure.

- Adriana Martinez

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

- Alan Sloan

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

- Alex Fisher

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

- Alex Kroll

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

- Alexander Nikonov

Action is only coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

- Alexander Nikonov

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

- Alexis Waggoner

Right now most of the communication going on about technology seems unnecessarily obscure and overly technical. Apple still seems to do the best job.

- Ali Dakkak

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

- Allan Slater

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

- Allan Slater

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

- Alvina Tan

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

- Alysia Waters

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

- Amitabh Ray

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

- Andi Melendez

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.

- Andre Leon Talley

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

- Andre P. Brink

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

- G.K. Chesterton

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

- Victor Hugo

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

- Ambrose Bierce

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

- G.K. Chesterton

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous

- Frederick Pollock

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

- Horace
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A Constitution should be short and obscure

- Napoleon Bonaparte