Conor Oberst Quotes
Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
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I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
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Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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The test of love is in how we live.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
