Conor Oberst Quotes

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

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• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Important
  • Show

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • See
  • Only

• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • People
  • Responsibility

• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Like
  • Anniversary

• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Same
  • Speed

• I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Pink

• No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Singing

• Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Great
  • Judgment

• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Real
  • Parents

• If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Mind
  • Sports
  • Training

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Success
  • Now

• A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parent

• It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I had when I first got up here was, 'We really do live on a planet, and we are in a solar system, and we are flying through space right now.' I mean, this is something that you know, obviously, but to see the planet - it's amazing.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Up
  • Live
  • Space

• When I was younger, I looked a lot older than I was. They have these working laws in England where you have to be 16: if you're over 16, you don't have to be restrained by working hours and things like that. In America, it's actually 18.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • America

• Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping the H bomb may brand you as an intellectual or a Kennedy. But it will not give you much nerd cred. And that's a good thing.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Good
  • School
  • May

• In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

  

  Kevin McKidd
  • Why
  • American
  • Football

• With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

  

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