George Clooney

It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.

American Actor

Allen West

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

American Politician

Ty Burrell

I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

Rana el Kaliouby

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

Egyptian Scientist

Yuna

A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

Malaysian Musician

Jon Lovitz

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

Simon Helberg

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

Louis Aragon

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

French Poet

Krista Allen

I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

American Actress

Liz Cambage

My mom used to call me Bliv - as in oblivious.

Australian Basketball Player

Often implies negligence or lack of consideration for others.

Negative Connotation

Used in media to describe characters unaware of obvious things.

Cultural References

Although neutral, it's usually negative, suggesting a lack of attention.

Often Negative

Can indicate someone emotionally detached from a situation.

Emotional Distance

May suggest someone is self-absorbed or absent-minded.

Subtle Implications

Used to express deep engagement in one thing, neglecting others.

Focus Related

 We settled in Footscray, a working-class suburb whose demographic is layers of immigrants. Unlike the settled middle-class suburbs, whose existence I was oblivious of, there was no sense of entitlement in Footscray. The smells from shop doors were from the rest of the world.

Tan Le: My immigration...

 while being completely oblivious of the fact I was manipulating them. So what happened here? Because you were aware that I was trying to influence your choice, you probably paid more attention to what I was doing. And this led the majority of you to choose more consciously

Secrets of the mind and...

 Santorini where people are sunning themselves on the beach unbeknownst to them in caldera nearby we found phenomenal hydrothermal vent systems and another more life systems this was two miles from where people go to sunbathe and they were oblivious to the existence

On exploring the oceans...

 that don't do anything. Of course, this is ridiculous. We know that trees are just waiting for summer so they can reactivate. But if the human life span were significantly shorter than that of trees, we might be completely oblivious to this totally mundane fact.

The mysterious microbes...

 food sources and that's a lesson that can be applied directly to human beings there's part of that that they exist in humanity when we're at our worst not far away the neighbors are feeding in the fig tree oblivious to the approaching danger

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 and I'm forever grateful for that first exchange. So obviously for a few weeks, I was a physical mess. Emotionally, mentally, I was doing OK. I was taking it well. But my body was ravaged, and those close to me, they weren't oblivious.

Our treatment of HIV has...

 She had no control over them. She said she didn't recognize any of the people or places in the hallucinations, and none of the people or the animals -- well, they all seemed oblivious of her. And she didn't know what was going on.

What hallucination...

 These figures are sort of entrapped within this very strong grid, which is like a prison, but also a fortress, because it allows them to be oblivious and naive and carefree and quite oblivious of the external world.

Aparna Rao: Art that...

 Never before has the responsibility to feed the world been in the hands of so few people. And never before have so many people been oblivious of that fact.

Louise Fresco on feeding...

 run for cover now one youngster is oblivious to the danger despite the repeated alarms it's a mistake that could cost him his life

Oblivious

Negative Connotation

Cultural References

Often Negative

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