Conor Oberst Quotes
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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Unfortunately, my beauty regime is almost nonexistent when I am training.
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I'm kind of like, "never say never."
